Fictional Characters With Undiagnosed Aspergers or Autism

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Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes, for reasons mentioned above. I always identified with Calvin. His vocabulary is exceedingly advanced and formal for a six-year-old; his imagination is vivid, and he's quite an expert on his favorite subjects (one of which is dinosaurs).

Gordon Freeman: a solitary man and his crowbar, never talks, even when there is a hot chick accompanying him trying to help him out. He just probably doesn't know what to say! And he's a theoretical physicist who gets to explore abandoned places, solve puzzles and blast monsters all day. An aspie's fantasy. If I couldn't have my current job, I would kill to take his.

Dr House, again. When this show first came out, my parents started watching it. I didn't because I did not have a TV. But one day my mom called and said that I have to watch House, as she sees my exact personality in him. I watched the show and agreed, he acts exactly like I do. Eventually I rented a whole season and enjoyed watching all the episodes. I get such a kick out of watching that show, because a lot of the time I can predict exactly what he is going to say to Wilson or Cuddy or one of the other characters. He's always twirling his cane or bouncing his ball, and does some of his best work while alone and apparently not even paying attention.

I thought Dr Becker might have it too, to a milder degree. Besides, I think that House is just the reincarnation of Becker's character, as one show started not long after the other was cancelled.

The criminal minds guy is Spencer Reid. He also cannot identify his own emotions but he's extremely good at reading others emotions.

Zach off Bones is probably Asperger's. He speaks in a monotone, is oblivious to boredom indicators, cannot read emotion, has special interests, always has to eat the same lunch and copes poorly with change.

McKay from SGA, and maybe Radek as well.

Daniel from SG1. He has obsessions, cannot articulate his emotions, won't let people touch him.

House

Rimmer off Red Dwarf. Pedantic, obsessed with rules, patterns and order, special interests (telegraph poles, organ music and Risk), need to talk about his special interests, hopeless at reading emotions, odd dress sense, need for solitude, anxiety and deals poorly with change.

Ah! Yes! Mr Holmes! He's the original hero! Thank you.

Sorry to be distracted but smallholder, I liked Verne too.


Chihiro looked like an ordinary little girl to me but I know I can be a bad judge.

How about the bothers in the film ‘Mamiya Brothers’? I hope it’s shown outside Japan but it may be too Japanese to be popular or marketable over the seas. Their odd but ordered life style is very calming to see. They have walls of bookshelves and collections. Found the trailer:
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=xFnQ080JXjY

Denshaotoko in ‘Denshaotoko’? Hope someone has seen it?

Holden Caulfield, possibly?
Oh, and all of the main characters in Welcome to the NHK (I've only read the novel, so I can't comment on the anime and manga based on it).

Do you agree that a lot of his characters are on the autism spectrum?

Big Bang Theory is just weird. I don't like it at all.

daria from mtv

Luna has always seemed pretty schizotypal to me (minus the incoherent speech).

I unofficially diagnose Luna. I love Luna.

As for Dr. House, there is an episode (Lines in the Sand) in which he treats an autistic boy and Wilson questions whether House himself is autistic. Cuddy tells him that House is "just a jerk." There was a ton of online debating over whether House had Asperger's, and it got extremely heated with people not understanding what it was, and all that. I would say he most likely isn't, as he is excellent at reading people and while he chooses not to be socially successful, he can do quite well if he wants to. However, he does have many of the traits. I think he's just more kind of withdrawn and eccentric because he's angry and can't bring himself to open up to people.

People with Asperger's can LEARN to read people.... just because we don't do it instinctively doesn't mean we can't learn how. I've become quite good at it over the years under certain circumstances. For example, collecting past due payments on loans, you have to be able to "read" your customer to a certain extent. I was damned good at it until I became the manager, and got stuck with administrative crap 24/7. That doesn't extend to ALL situations... while I became good at reading players at a poker table (and being able to estimate odd didn't hurt), I'm crap at reading "women" for interpersonal purposes. I've lost out on more relationships in my life, than I've had, simply because I could NOT understand the woman was interested... House, being a doctor would be EXPECTED to read the patient... he's much less able with women on a personal level, from the episodes I've seen...

Kavanaugh from SGA

Overly literal, speaks in a monotone, overly logical, overly blunt and can't understand why this offends people, special interests and unusual reasoning, unusual appearance and he reads and projects emotions poorly.

The vast majority of people dislike him and are suspicious of him, not because he's actually done, or even said, anything wrong (he is a good scientist and he saves Shepperd, Teyla, McKay and Ford in the episode 38 minutes) but because of his unfortunate manner and lack of emotion.

Hmmm.... someone in another thread mentioned Aspie's may tend towards vigilantism. So what do you think? Batman? The Punisher? Sheesh half the freakin X-Men, not to mention Spiderman.

Not sure. I tend to forget the signs of AS.

TV:
The vast majority of people on shows involving forsenic investigations
Martin Prince and Milhouse van Houten (The Simpsons)
Dewey from Malcom in the Middle
All those weird little precocious kids that show up in most sitcoms

Books:
Any main character in anything by Dostoevsky
Don Quixote
Sherlock Holmes
Dorothea Brooke (Middlemarch)
Mr. Causabon (also Middlemarch)
Hermione Granger
Oskar Matzerath (The Tin Drum). Actually, might have full-blown autism.
Every mad scientist you have ever read about ever

Sad to say I can't remember the characters; I read it at about the same time as 'The Lost World' by Doyle when I was quite young, and somehow almost compeletely lost the memory of the contents, can't even remember whether is was 'From the Earth to the Moon' or 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea'. I'll have to revisit them as I do manage to remember the excitement.


I was also going to say:
Inspector Morse

He's logical, remembers every detail, keeps himself to himself, lives alone and loves music (classical) and (or but in another context - ooh I love the succession of three conjunctions, totally unintentional, but isn't that cool), reads slowly, which suggests comobidity.*
*Plz note: this is a description of Inspector Morse's character that seems to match with SOME of the AS traits and is not meant to be a sum of general traits.