Aspie characters on TV

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Basil Fawlty.

Roy from Coronation Street.

This might be way off AS but Ed from Ed,Edd,N,Eddy would be a likely.

Gil Grisom, CSI. He's definitly something. A couple of people from scifi, I just can't remember who...

Rik, from The Young Ones.

OMGOSH! I always called my brother Cliff (after that silly character, lol) and now that we know we're Aspies it makes SO much more sense!! Yep, he's just like that too!

Could Eastenders Ben Mitchell be a young Aspie, they could quite easily develop his charater that direction without being too sterotypical of aspies. We need an ND person in Eastenders.

Here's some anime characters I can think of that certainly seem to have Aspergers or at least autistic traits:
Ed from Cowboy Bebop (she speaks incoherently, she's very good around computers, and she's just plain silly)
Lain from Serial Experiments Lain (she rarely blinks and is often seen staring into space. She's also the quietest character in the series, which is no small feat. BTW, this anime is EXTREMELY bizarre and difficult to follow. I do not recommend it to anyone who has difficulty with complex plots. But it is quite enjoyable if you can handle it. It has very nice visuals and what I think is the best opening theme I have ever heard in an anime. It's also one of the short ones: 13 "layers", so it takes 4 DVD's to watch, making it quite cheap. That's all I can say without revealing anything else.
The Laughing Man from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex season I (this is the most obvious one. They even tell you he's autistic. Plus his sense of justice is quite black and white, a trait many autistic and aspies share. True, some of you may not like the fact that a "villain" [we can't really call him that because he does have a positive motive for his actions, even if they are misguided] is an autistic person, but I'm sure some of you might let this one go. I doubt seriously Masamune Shirow [the creator of Ghost in the Shell] meant to offend anyone, he never even ridicules the character. Motoko treats him with the highest respect. But then, she treats a lot of people that way.)
I was going to say Vash from Trigun, but I doubt any aspies out there would be that good at dodging bullets. (no offense)
Osaka and Tomo from Azumanga Daioh, an anime about 6 "ordinary" (well, ordinary for anime ) schoolgirls. (Osaka is prone to staring into space and saying random stuff. Tomo is the Ritalin poster child. After all, many people who have asperger's also sometimes have ADHD, so it sure seems that way. And let's not forget that of all the 6 students, these two are the ones who seem to have the most trouble in school. They make the lowest grades and Tomo is even ridiculed playfully by her peers for her off-the-wall personality. And I'm quite sure many of us aspies love to be the center of attention, as she certainly does. This is a very funny series, even if there isn't much of a plot. The manga is more like a comic strip, but equally enjoyable.)

As for non-anime but animated, well I think there's an aspie superhero: The Question on Justice League. Think about it: he's very intelligent, he doesn't notice when people aren't listening to him, and he's obsessed with conspiracy theories. Rejoice fellow aspies! We have a superhero! And a cool one at that!

Lisa Simpson, Stewie and/or Brian from Family Guy, Dave from Newsradio, and a few others. Moe from the Simpsons is also probably close.

No. I think the 9 includes the Tachikomas.
anyway: What about No. 3 on Kids Next Door. She's so cute and silly. And look at all those Rainbow Monkeys in her room. I love the episode where they're trying to get into the ice cream factory and she keeps typing "I love parties" instead of the correct password.

From a discussion on, of all things, political language on a blog called
"Common Dreams" (American politics alert on the blog! But not in the sf
news.)

"... William Ford Gibson, the king of cyber punk and the coiner of the
phrase cyber-space among others.

His book, Pattern Recognition, is soon to be a TV show/movie offers some
clues to his behavior. With reality looking more and more like fiction,
fiction often penetrates reality better than journalism.

Blogger Kate Sherrod explains how his book interprets the subtext of our
times. “It is set very much in our … car-driving, Guiness-swilling,
paper-wasting, TV-watching present, specifically about a year after the
September 11 attacks; its milieu is the very internet in which you, my
reader, and I, Your Humble Blogger am now engaged, a perfectly evoked
subculture of fanatical followers of a mass of film snippets that surface
online from time to time dubbed "the Footage," and the very 21st century
"post-geographic" life of a 33 year old woman whose overwhelming sensitivity
to media blitz, to corporate logos and branding, would be a crippling mental
illness if she hadn't found a way to make it.”


Note from me: I read the book at the the public library. I think Casey (the woman described above) is an Aspie who made it big. Fictional, but we're talking William Gibson's world here.