Which X-Files characters seem autistic?

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14 Dec 2017, 4:40 pm

Because Wrong Planet polls are limited to just 20 voting options, it wouldn’t make sense to restrict voters’ choices with so many possibilities. So, this will be a wide-ranging poll which describes those characters who you believe exhibit autistic behaviors and characteristics in addition to their other conditions and talents.

As you name and describe your chosen characters, it might help to search through the The X-Files Wiki web site ( http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page ).

So, I will start off....

1) Chess prodigy Gibson Praise

2) NICAP investigator Max Fenig

3) Any of The Lone Gunmen

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15 Dec 2017, 2:04 am

Scully, especially in the first few years of the show. Flat effect, logical scientific type thinking. Everything was her work, no small talk. In the reboot she displayed a lot more “typical” emotions.

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15 Dec 2017, 7:33 am

ASPartOfMe wrote:

Hmmm. I hadn't thought of her early episodes, but you are right! She used to be a bit of a chatterbox reminding Mulder of FBI chapter and verse. Yes, seemingly quite autistic for a while. :wink:

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17 Dec 2017, 5:40 pm

I'd go with Mulder, as he's the least social, most eccentric, and too often - dare I say it - gullible.

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17 Dec 2017, 6:15 pm

I think both Scully and Mulder each have some autistic traits. There's also the woman in the season 7 (I think) episode "Alpha," who's obsessed with canids - she strikes me as autistic.

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17 Dec 2017, 9:18 pm

Scully and Mulder, yeah. Also the Lone Gunmen.

I need to rewatch this show.

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23 Mar 2019, 8:43 pm

Scully, out of her people reading ability, but she is observant and it may be learnt.

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23 Mar 2019, 8:46 pm

The girl from the episode "Chinga", which I happen to have just been watching, was autistic.

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23 Mar 2019, 9:15 pm

^ Paulie.

Characters who were diagnosed autistic in the show were such a caricature. Roland in the namesake episode, and Harold in Elegy. ...

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23 Mar 2019, 9:22 pm

Do you think Jonathan from Buffy the Vampire Slayer was autistic?

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27 Mar 2019, 8:10 pm

Darin Peter Oswald from the episode "D.P.O.", just because of his poor social skills, single and best friend, preoccupation with video games, his tantrums, and the use of his acquired powers to try to get what he wants (kinda like logic-ing a thing). Less the super-intelligent and distant autistic and more immature, fantasy prone, and bipolar autistic.

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27 Mar 2019, 8:54 pm

Brad Wilczek from "Ghost in the Machine"

Darin Peter Oswald from "D.P.O."

Chester Ray Banton from "Soft Light"

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29 Mar 2019, 11:42 am

The Flukeman.

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29 Mar 2019, 1:22 pm

The "Faceless Aliens".

No eye contact. Flat affect. Stiff, clumsy movements. Little or no verbal communication. Obsessed with fire and self-mutilation. ...

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29 Mar 2019, 3:45 pm

Fnord wrote:

The "Faceless Aliens".

No eye contact. Flat affect. Stiff, clumsy movements. Little or no verbal communication. Obsessed with fire and self-mutilation. ...

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