ASSUMED MOVIE, TV AND CARTOON CHARACTERS W/ ASPERGERS

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Oh yeah, I forgot about Shikamaru. Highly intelligent, thinks other people are "bothersome", gets along better with adults than with his peers.

And Rock Lee - Has language peculiarities (too formal word choices), regarded by others as a "weirdo".

Gosh, I guess you could make a case for a lot of characters from Naruto.

Oh yeah, I forgot about Shikamaru. Highly intelligent, thinks other people are "bothersome", gets along better with adults than with his peers.

And Rock Lee - Has language peculiarities (too formal word choices), regarded by others as a "weirdo".

Gosh, I guess you could make a case for a lot of characters from Naruto.

Oh yeah, I forgot about Shikamaru. Highly intelligent, thinks other people are "bothersome", gets along better with adults than with his peers.

And Rock Lee - Has language peculiarities (too formal word choices), regarded by others as a "weirdo".

Gosh, I guess you could make a case for a lot of characters from Naruto.

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Rocko from "Rocko's modern Life" and Mr. Bean

I've read the Harry potter books and I don't think any of them has AS

What about Catherine from "The Heiress" (1949 movie based on Henry James's novel "Washington Square"). And also the same character from the 1997 movie "Washington Square". (The movies are both set in the mid-1800's, in Victorian times.)

In both movies she is very shy and socially awkward. Her father is very unaccepting of her as she is, which doesn't help matters, but he tried teaching her things and having family members do things with her to make her more extroverted, to no avail. In "The Heiress" she seems to like to do little more than embroider until she fell in love with a man. She is very naive socially. She tells the truth no matter what, at least until she is hurt and grows a hard shell. She has two ways of being: naive and loving and enthusiastic (before being hurt); and cold and cynical (after being hurt). She believes what someone says--the man she loves must love her because "he said he did". After she is hurt by several people, she no longer believes any good thing anyone says to her..it's as if she now realizes she can't tell the difference, so better not to believe anyone. this seems like an Aspie thing to do and is something I've done in the past. (But maybe it's a social anxiety trait too.)

The only problem with Catherine in "The Heiress" being Aspie is the way that Olivia deHavilland played the part, she is very big on eye contact and facial expressions. However, Jennifer Jason Leigh who played her in "Washington Square" really seems to play her as an autistic person. I haven't seen the movie in a year or so, but it seems like she had a problem even making eye contact and talking much at all, and some people even implied she was ret*d. But she obviously had intelligence based on later scenes in the movie, so it seems like probably she was Aspie.

Bob Melnikov from Regenesis. David said in one episode that Bob was Aspi.

He is really representative of it too

Thought just popped into my head.

Perhaps Emily Dickinson?
The poet?

I know she's not a TV, movie, or cartoon character, but her hermetism(sp?) seems very aspie-ish.

1. How about Jack Bauer? I know, the aspie face of 24 is Chloe, but Jack shows some signs too
- expert in narrow areas (torturing/terrorists/kicking ass)
- always honest and logical
- always seems out of place in social situations
Then again, he's been through so much sh*t no wonder he's weird, and the show doesn't concentrate on his social life

2. Dexter, the serial killer from the show Dexter
Another stretch, but I could always relate to his social/emotional blindness. His obsession is blood and death, he learned social stuff pretty much by pure training.

3. Jerry "Hands" Espenson, from the show Boston legal
He's diagnosed with Apsergers. Great recurring character. His symptoms seem exaggerated, but still spot on.

About Doctor House and aspergers:

"Wilson talks to Cuddy to try and resolve the problem with the carpet, "I'm going to read you something. 'Asperger's syndrome is a mild and rare form of autism. It is typically characterized by difficulty establishing friendships and playing with peers, trouble accepting conventional social rules, and they dislike any change in setting or routine'... or broadloom. Doesn't say that last part but you get my point.

Cuddy isn't buying it, "House doesn't have Asperger's, diagnosis is much simpler; he's a jerk."

"Why do you think he took this case? Because he believes these parents? Because he wants to help a young boy? He sees himself in this kid and he's trying to help himself. He doesn't want this, he needs it."

Later Wilson tells House, "You're not autistic; you don't even have Asperger's. You wish you did, it would exempt you from the rules, give you freedom, absolve you of responsibility, let you date 17-yr-olds. But most important it would mean that you're not just a jerk."

House wants Wilson to shut up, "At what point does a person endlessly lecturing someone make him a jerk?"