Favroite Disalbed Fictional Chacacter

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I was watching Young Frankenstein today, and I realized as I was watching it that the monster had low-functioning autism. He's slow to develop speech skills, stims by focusing in on the sound of the violin, and obsessive-compulsively avoids fire.
Yes, I know, that's a bit of a stretch, but that's what I thought when I saw that movie.

Already mentioned, Professor X. He's cool.

Also Edward Scissorhands.

Nemo and Dory from "Finding Nemo"

...And Timmy from "South Park", especially when he gets into a rock band.

mine is Doctor Who because he an autistic savant because he answers thing without thinking about it, he doesn't social with people too well, he doesn't like living in a house, he rather dies, his behaviour was bad at university.

Thomas Covenant from the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series. He had leprosy and was very bitter. He's one of the most interesting characters I've read about.

Timmy from South Park!! !! !!

Not only is he disabled, but he has the same name as me.

Tim

Hmm...I'm not sure if this would qualify, but I will explain when I get to it.

*SPOILER WARNING FOR PEOPLE THAT HAVE NOT WATCHED "FIREFLY" OR "SERENITY"*

I like River from the TV show "Firefly" and the movie "Serenity". Although she is a Psychic, she shows many symptoms of Asperger's. (I don't think this is only because the government played with her brain, because they showed her as a kid and she was fantasizing with her brother.) Plus, if it ain't Asperger's, then it might be schizophrenia. Who knows? But she is still AWESOME.

Agreed. River was obviously autistic from the time she was a young kid. I don't think it's just that she was gifted and eccentric. After she goes to The Academy, she has PTSD, plus can't filter anything, so is almost always overloaded, but she didn't become autistic at the Academy, she already was autistic. Even the stick thing in Objects in Space could potentially be explained by autistic visual processing stuff, if she was seeing shapes and not automatically understanding what the object was. With her line "the human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems," I wasn't thinking paranoid schizophrenia, I was wondering if that might be what the Blue Hand Device does. So, I don't believe that she's schizophrenic, just that she's an autie with severe PTSD.

My default icon on LiveJournal is a picture of River Tam with the word "autie" next to it. (I would have liked to use it here, but the file was too big. I relate to her more than I relate to any other fictional character that I can remember.

Maybe not many people know this one, but Dragon from the Farseeker Trilogy (By Isobelle Carmody). She has many of the traits of a non-verbal autistic, but her special psychic gift is that she can project images into other people's heads.

Star from Balto (I think he has ADHD)
Sandra from Waydowntown (I think she has OCD)
That's all I can think of off the top of my head......

I haven't read much fiction since I was a kid (though I'm a voracious non-fiction reader and book collector). I read lots of books with disabled characters, though I don't remember the names of the characters themselves. One of my favourite books was Mine For Keeps, by Canadian author Jean Little, about a girl with cerebral palsy. Also Izzy Willy-Nilly by Cynthia Voigt.

Favourite fictional TV characters include Dr. House, anyone played by Marlee Matlin, and aspie Bob Melnikov on ReGenesis.