TV characters with Aspergers?

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12 Dec 2010, 11:07 pm

I was just wondering if anybody while watching TV has ever come across any characters you thought might have aspergers. (But that they don't specify on the show)
I think Bones from Bones might. And Abed from Community.

I was just wondering what you guys thought?

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12 Dec 2010, 11:44 pm

Doc Martin. Definitely.

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12 Dec 2010, 11:56 pm

Yes, I think Bones. Definitely Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory and possibly House.

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13 Dec 2010, 12:11 am

I've never seen much evidence for placing Dr. House on the spectrum.

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13 Dec 2010, 12:13 am

Bones I think they want to be Aspie-ish, but sometimes the writing for that character pisses me off. They tend to exaggerate her social deficits to the point it make her look silly or soulless.

That last episode, where she was over-identifying with the surgeon, was really good though. They really nailed some of the things we Aspie women experience.

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13 Dec 2010, 12:15 am

Sparrowrose wrote:

I've never seen much evidence for placing Dr. House on the spectrum.

They did an episode about that. I kind of hated that episode--it's like they did it just to set up the idea House had Asperger's only to say, no he's just a jerk. It was the one with a screaming autistic kid, who House compared to a monkey at one point. :roll:

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13 Dec 2010, 12:15 am

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Bones I think they want to be Aspie-ish, but sometimes the writing for that character pisses me off. They tend to exaggerate her social deficits to the point it make her look silly or soulless.

Is that really how she comes across? Because I've been told that I behave like her and hadn't realized it was meant as an insult.

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13 Dec 2010, 12:17 am

Mercurial wrote:

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I've never seen much evidence for placing Dr. House on the spectrum.

Right, I saw that episode. I thought House was only saying he might have Asperger's to be an arse.
He's waaaaaaay too good at predicting what people will think or do and way too good at observing human behavior an dusing it against people to be on the spectrum. He's got hella people skills; he just chooses to be an acerbic arse with them.

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13 Dec 2010, 12:23 am

Sparrowrose wrote:

Mercurial wrote:

Bones I think they want to be Aspie-ish, but sometimes the writing for that character pisses me off. They tend to exaggerate her social deficits to the point it make her look silly or soulless.

Is that really how she comes across? Because I've been told that I behave like her and hadn't realized it was meant as an insult.

That how it comes across to me, and it's only sometimes. Sometimes I think Bones is a good example of a woman with Asperger's. I will say, I'm good there is such a character on TV--I get pretty tired of people thinking only men and boys have AS.

And people have compared me to Bones too. I wouldn't be bothered by that--when NTs make that kind of comparison, they are thinking in vague generalities, not by point-by-point details the way we Aspie probably would.

Plus, NTs tend to see very cerebral or not emotionally expressive women as oddities, so we might seem all the same to them, despite glaring differences between us as individuals. It's like how someone who doesn't know jazz very well thinks it all sounds the same, yet someone who knows jazz very well can tell between the different styles and eras and such.

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13 Dec 2010, 12:29 am

Sparrowrose wrote:

Mercurial wrote:

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I've never seen much evidence for placing Dr. House on the spectrum.

Right, he's picks up on stuff about human behavior that we Aspies just wouldn't. It's like new Sherlock Holmes on BBC--he notices details and deduces things from them about the person's thoughts, personality or behavior that we Aspies probably wouldn't. I saw that show because I read they had made Sherlock more Aspergian, but I was like "Dang, I wish I could do that." I would likely notice, for example, someone's cellphone's charger outlet was excessively worn--but I wouldn't make the intuitive leap that it had anything to do with that person's relationship with their sibling!

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13 Dec 2010, 12:39 am

XFridgeYyeahZRosie wrote:

And Abed from Community.

Had a quote in the Bottle episode that is so perfect--he compared it to being "entombed in a mausoleum of feelings that he could neither understand nor reciprocate". Wow---it's like me at every party I've ever been to.

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13 Dec 2010, 10:42 am

Abed from Community.
Moss from the IT Crowd (hence my avatar).

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13 Dec 2010, 6:49 pm

All three of the Warners, maybe.

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14 Dec 2010, 8:34 pm

Mercurial wrote:

Sparrowrose wrote:

I've never seen much evidence for placing Dr. House on the spectrum.

I must have missed that one. I don't remember anyone actually mentioning it.

It's just his obsession with puzzles and lack of emotional interaction with his colleagues I was thinking of.

It's only just started but Isles from Rizzoli & Isles seems to have some AS traits as well.

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14 Dec 2010, 8:57 pm

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It's just his obsession with puzzles and lack of emotional interaction with his colleagues I was thinking of.

That's not enough to diagnose him. Lots of highly intelligent people have an obsession with puzzles and emotional stuntedness is a sign of a wide variety of conditions. I still maintain that he wouldn't be able to predict people's behavior and manipulate people the way he does if he had a developmental disorder.

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17 Dec 2010, 8:14 pm

How about Gupta on "Outsourced"? I've been trying to figure out if it's an Asperger's thing or a cultural thing with him.

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