Does anyone know of any fictional characters with AS?
That's it! I think she's awesome.... and I'm horribly addicted to the show.
what got me thinking was that on the last episode the manager said "we hired you because you don't think like anybody else... so I guess we should give you a chance."
Just her sincerity and non-emotional way of tackling emotions.
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Oh, another thought.... how about Spencer on Criminal Minds?
24 is the one show that my husband and I will sit and watch together.
I always say that Chloe's face reminds me of a cartoon character. I don't know why? I guess she always has that serious look on her face and doesn't smile that much.
I loved it last night when she pulled the gun on the guy because he wouldn't let her do the programming the way she wanted to. That was classic!! !!
ASPERGERS IS DEBILITATING GOD DAMMIT!! !
It depends on who is listed.
Those I listed are disabled in the ways an ASD is defined, whether they care about that or not.
For example, Ronald is in jail due to his obsession with fire (lacks empathy for people; doesn't care if they are caught up in the fire); speaks in third person often, uses a strange dialect compared to his peers, is brutally honest, socially isolated, detailed orientated, and finds a unique way to solve a problem.
I count four from "The Office": Michael, Dwight, and Erin, all representing different stereotypes.
Michael is kind of the oblivious aspie who is unaware of how annoying he can be.
Dwight is like the self-aware aspie who has no desire to change himself, believing himself to be superior to everyone, including his own boss at times.
Erin is the self-aware aspie who tries hard not to annoy people, and is eager to please. There's also a side to her that makes characters want to sort of take her under her wing(Kelly, Angela, Andy).
I'm also inclined to believe Andy is one, due to his obsession with acapella singing(and music in general), anger problems, and the fact that he accidentally ended up dating a high school girl even though he's in his 30's.
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There are three characters.
One is NT. One is Aspergers. One is well into the Autistic side.
It's very, very funny, but sometimes I think that behind the humour it's like a surreal documentary of my life.
As long as the producers haven't said otherwise they are all NTs, but Moss does act quite aspie-ish. I see me and my friends in those 4 characters, I'm Jen, my closest friend is Moss and my other friend is Roy and my old friend is richmond. And the episode when they have that dinner party is just how I imagine if I invited my friends over for a dinner party. That is why I find that programme so funny.
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Coincidence on 34th street.
I take a pretty rigid view on this sort of thing. So people like Christopher John Francis Boone (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), Adam Raki (Adam), Donald Morton and Isabelle Sorenson (Mozart and the Whale) are the only people that I would definitively list.
One of the important things, in my view, is that having an Autism Spectrum Disorder is not the same thing as merely presenting Aspie traits. For a condition to qualify as a disorder, it must have a clinically significant impact.
Within that context, a character like Gregory House (House, M.D.) is a borderline case. Clearly there are clinically signficant issues, but the question is open as to what is causing his presentation. I'm not sold on the autism spectrum.
It is possible to list dozens, if not hundreds of characters who present some trait or another. But to qualify as an Aspie, one must be more than merely quirky.
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One of the important things, in my view, is that having an Autism Spectrum Disorder is not the same thing as merely presenting Aspie traits. For a condition to qualify as a disorder, it must have a clinically significant impact.
Within that context, a character like Gregory House (House, M.D.) is a borderline case. Clearly there are clinically signficant issues, but the question is open as to what is causing his presentation. I'm not sold on the autism spectrum.
It is possible to list dozens, if not hundreds of characters who present some trait or another. But to qualify as an Aspie, one must be more than merely quirky.
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One of the important things, in my view, is that having an Autism Spectrum Disorder is not the same thing as merely presenting Aspie traits. For a condition to qualify as a disorder, it must have a clinically significant impact.
Within that context, a character like Gregory House (House, M.D.) is a borderline case. Clearly there are clinically signficant issues, but the question is open as to what is causing his presentation. I'm not sold on the autism spectrum.
It is possible to list dozens, if not hundreds of characters who present some trait or another. But to qualify as an Aspie, one must be more than merely quirky.
AMEN!! !
This is what I've been saying.
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Coincidence on 34th street.
There are three characters.
One is NT. One is Aspergers. One is well into the Autistic side.
It's very, very funny, but sometimes I think that behind the humour it's like a surreal documentary of my life.
As long as the producers haven't said otherwise they are all NTs, but Moss does act quite aspie-ish. I see me and my friends in those 4 characters, I'm Jen, my closest friend is Moss and my other friend is Roy and my old friend is richmond. And the episode when they have that dinner party is just how I imagine if I invited my friends over for a dinner party. That is why I find that programme so funny.
I still can;t watch it without thinking that the writer has a webcam in my office.
I'm reading a book called The Family Man by Elinor Lipman, and a character is described as "Socially awkward--even Aspergian." It's a minor character and I'm not sure if she really intended him to have Aspergers or not.
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