Is Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes an aspie?

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I really think so. He has all the tools for it. He has no friends but his imaginary tiger, Hobbes, he is fixated on dinos, can't concentrate in school, is bullied by his biggest classmate, always fails by playing baseball and drives his parents mad. I'm quite sure he has Asperger's

I never thought about that! That could very well be the case!

If we follow the old (pre-DSM-IV) definitions, I think he was a very tipical case of "schizoid disorder of childhood and adolescence" (solitary and living in fantasy); for modern standards, I bet more in Inattentive ADHD - their interests are strange, but are not particulary restricted.

More likely highly gifted with discalculia.

I always thought Calvin was a sociopath in the making.

well your wrong, he doesn't. Also the tiger was not imaginary, the tiger was in fact the embodiment of realality

I'd hazzard a guess at Aspies and ADHD.

And I think Eggman's right...

The transmogriphier is clearly a real, functioning machine. Ergo, I conclude schizoid disorder rather than ASD.

I'd lean towards ADHD...

Calvin is probably one of the last people I'd suspect as being Aspie.

He's ink on paper.

Yep, he's an aspie.

Asperger syndrome didn't make it into the public eye until the mid-90s, by which time the Calvin character was already fully-developed and in fact Watterson was making the last strips (the last one came at the end of 1995). Many people can relate to Calvin when recalling their youth and I think that helped the strip become as popular as it was. Based on his classroom experiences he might be a candidate for ADHD, but I don't see any case for AS.