ASSUMED MOVIE, TV AND CARTOON CHARACTERS W/ ASPERGERS

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07 Aug 2008, 11:15 am

dontwanttoknow wrote:

greenblue wrote:

I know all androids are aspies by default but I want to add this character
Lal from Star Trek TNG episode "The Offspring", which is my favorite episode of the series
I liked her a lot even before I knew anything about AS and had very limited knowledge about autism.
It was a very emotional episode for me and I cried at the end the first time I saw it.

Didn't somebody say in an earlier post that any aliens couldn't be Aspies because they're supposed to be different?

Don't know, but to answer those who think Spock is an Aspie -- I have a theory that on Vulcan, people who act like Terran NT's have a forum called "Wrong Planet"!

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07 Aug 2008, 11:19 am

DeaconBlues wrote:

Det. Goren, definitely. In one early episode, when they went up against a murderer who was also diagnosed Aspie, his partner's comment after first meeting the suspect was, "I didn't know you had an older, creepier brother."

I remember that episode! Det. Goren was the one who diagnosed the murderer as an Aspie. I always suspected Det. Goren too -- he has that brand of originality.

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07 Aug 2008, 11:56 am

MadAme wrote:

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I remember that episode! Det. Goren was the one who diagnosed the murderer as an Aspie. I always suspected Det. Goren too -- he has that brand of originality.

Ah, it is why I love him so much. : ) I am way too obsessed with that show.

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07 Aug 2008, 5:42 pm

I strongly think Rorshach from Watchmen is aspie.

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07 Aug 2008, 6:53 pm

Norah_W wrote:

Besides he was based on the same character in the British movie "Fever Pitch" which was about rugby or soccer, I think (hopefully a British person who knows the correct term will correct me).

Yes he was/is an avid Arsenal football(soccer) fan as is Nick Hornby, the author.

Have trawled through the 20 pages of this thread and of my three candidates, only one has been mentioned - unless I missed the others! Avoiding all comic/cartoon/alien and android characters (for reasons previously mentioned which I agree with) I offer these up for discussion:-

Dr Sayer - Awakenings (previously mentioned)
Dr Nialls Frasier - Frasier (his brother and father have been suggested but I think he is more typical of the condition)
Will Hunting - Good Will Hunting (I think this character is so Aspie it' s inconceivable that he hasn't been mentioned yet, but perhaps that's just me!)

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07 Aug 2008, 7:31 pm

Reodor_Felgen wrote:

Stuart Larkin from Mad TV is probably autistic. His mother seems like she has Asperger's as well.

OMG I heart Stuart... quote him all the time....my mum even teases me and calls me Stuart sometimes....

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08 Aug 2008, 4:52 pm

I don't like to put non anthromorphic animals with human developmental disorders because Autistic people and animals have so much in common. But in stories where the animals have human social words I will have to say these display traits: Rafiki, Ed, Timon, and Nuka from The Lion King. Kiara definatly has some mental issues. The little turtley thing from Titan A.E..

From literature: Ramona from the Beverly Clearly series just screams aspie to me.
Fudge from the Judy Blume "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" series screams aspie even louder than Ramona.

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24 Aug 2008, 1:38 am

Calvin from "Calvin & Hobbes"

Dilbert from the "Dilbert" cartoon and comic strips

Maybe Squidward from "SpongeBob SquarePants"

Dr. House from "House"

All three Ed characters from "Ed, Edd, 'N Eddy"

Chuckie from "Rugrats"

Mulder from "The X-Files"

Grissom from the first "CSI"

Ash Ketchum from "Pokemon"

James from "Pokemon"

Izzy from the first season of "Digimon"

And probably a lot more that I'm forgetting about.

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24 Aug 2008, 9:12 am

Fox Mulder is an educated psychologist, and he's good at reading social cues. In my honest opinion, both Mulder and Scully are ordinary loners rather than aspies.

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26 Aug 2008, 5:32 pm

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27 Aug 2008, 5:34 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReGenesis
Am not much of sci-fi maven, but this show has its charms.
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt72784.html

Belfast wrote:

Think, that for a fictional character with an ASD, "Bob Melnikov" is "good" writing & portrayal: neutral example-with both positives & negatives-neither a "burden" nor "paragon". Character comes across far more "authentically" on level I relate to-compared with "Boston Legal" guy.

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27 Aug 2008, 8:29 pm

D.W. from Arthur always seemed aspie to me. She's hyper and annoying. She's obsessed with ponies, Mary Moo Cow, and her snowball.

Lenny from Mice and Men seems Autistic.

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30 Aug 2008, 3:07 pm

Tygra from Thundercats

Obviously Jerry 'Hands' from Boston Legal

Brennan and Zak from Bones

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01 Sep 2008, 5:07 pm

cheesecheese wrote:

I'll go for a super-old reference and say Phileas Fogg from Jules Verne's novel Around The World in 80 Days.
He has no friends, his days are planned down to the last minute and unusually regular, never shows emotion even in extreme circumstances, is highly methodical and mathematical in his thinking and exceptionally driven when it comes to a few highly specific topics.
It is only in the last few pages that we even get the slightest indication that he is capable of displaying his emotions at all. A clockwork man with narrow focus. Loved him to bits

Yep I loved Phileas Fogg too; He was awesome. I even found it kind of reassuring reading the book because he was so solidly methodical. How about another old reference. The main character from Stendahl's The Red and The Black whose name escapes me right now. But the character had memerized the entire bible, word for word, in Latin. He was a tutor for wealthy family but pissed off his own family and many other people in his town just for not being able to communicate on a level they could understand.

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02 Sep 2008, 11:06 am

Doesn't Palin from Monty Python have it ?

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