Fictional characters with AS

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I found myself relating heavily to 'Tails' from the Sonic the Hedgehog games due to similarities we share both with personality and interests... but I never really thought about whether those traits are particularly 'Aspie' or not.

But now that I think about it... he's an incredibly nerdy little kid who's extremely precocious for his age, is obsessed with computers and aviation to the point where he spends all his spare time building planes and machines, is introverted and dislikes crowds despite wanting friends, has pretty cruddy self-esteem, is intelligent but also occasionally scatterbrained and clumsy, and is irrationally terrified of thunderstorms (like me). He also (like me) doesn't know when to shut up or realize that he's boring/confusing the heck out of people with his technobabble half the time.

I guess he's a candidate, haha, maybe that's part of why I relate to him.

Fictional characters are often stereotypes, and there's definitely an 'Aspie' stereotype out there, even if it isn't directly labelled as such. Usually the eccentric scatterbrained professor/inventor, but not always!

Actually, I'm probably dating myself, but the Horatio Hornblower series (written in the 30s/40s...and the character basis for James Tiberius Kirk, according to Gene Roddenberry)

A lot of fixation of the 'loneliness of command', but he spends a lot of time trying to say the minimum amount possible, doesn't get too close to his shipmates, etc. Tone deaf too, but I doubt that counts...

Inspector Fowler from "The Thin Blue Line"

Dr. Walter Bishop "Fringe"

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt "Numb3rs"

Another possible Aspie character, although a villain is Adam Sutler, the dictator in the movie "V for Vendetta"

I'm not sure it was a little professor thing. It was rather because she had been there with her sailor father.
Btw she says it in a discussion with two policemen who try to persuade her that she needs to go to school. For, as they say: "what if someone asks you what the name of the capital of Portugal is, and you can't answer?"
Her answer to the policemen shows her literal way of thinking and is very aspie-like, I think: "Of course I can answer, I just say: If you'd like to know the name of the capital of Portugal, then write to Portugal and ask!" (Just quoted from the memory.)

She might not be a little professor, but I think she's a little philosopher (in a thread here about female aspies it was written that aspie girls often were little philosophers rather than little professors).
(And btw I got a thought that her way of braiding her hair so tightly that the braids stick out sideways from her head, might be due to a sensory issue too? )

You forgot to mention that he's cute too!

the little Chinese guy from The Goonies

Yes, I am familiar with Tinker Bell, but only in relation to Peter Pan; I don´t remember any background information abut her being a "tinkerer" (I might have just forgotten that, it´s been a long time). I never saw the Tinker Bell movie, either. I didn´t think of her before as being an Aspie; however, that makes sense, actually. But, again, she is a mythical character, rather than a "human" character. As I mentioned, I have pretty consistently related more to female mythical characters throughout my life....I wonder if that is the reason why? Is this true for other women on the spectrum- do you relate more to mythical characters: (or even to male human characters with AS traits)- as I seem to? When I watch movies about those NT stereotypes, those female characters that I´m "supposed" to want to emulate, I find I don´t want to be like them at all! So, all my life, I´ve had witches and faeries to relate to; they were always my role models!

How about Dr. Spencer Reid on Criminal Minds?

yes we had that:



I don't watch it so no idea who's the cute one though ;p

It's this guy:

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Bones, Bones, Bones, Bones, Bones. I like that show for different reasons than most others who do, I think: they laugh (not meanly, really, but at the so-called bizarreness of it) at her awkward social behaviour and detached nature; I delight in it because I agree with the way she reacts to situations - I would do the same.

It's years since I've read this book, so I might be off-beam here, but I've often wondered about Harriet M. Welsch, in Harriet the Spy. She will only eat tomato sandwiches, she asks a lot of direct questions without caring about what others think or considering people's feelings, and she writes down all her 'spy' observations with a very scientific detachedness. And she very much relies on Ole Golly to tell her the socially correct things to do. This was my favourite book as a child, and I related to the character of Harriet quite strongly.

Oh, I used to also really like those books! I even went through a phase where I observed people and wrote down my own "spy" observations...(but I didn´t ask them questions). After my bike was stolen, I kind of remember hanging around this one house- the house of my suspect- for hours after school, observing, and writing everything I saw. I eventually took my notebook to the police station (I dragged my little brother along, he did some of the spying with me). They read it through, and treated us like little children (well, I guess we were, but that´s not the point). They complimented us for our astute observations, but said they didn´t have enough evidence for an arrest. I was devastated! Funny, I had forgotten about that, but your post brought back that memory.

Yep - me too! I started a spy book and modelled myself on Harriet. I used to peek though holes in people's fences and write down everything I observed. And during the holidays when I was forced by my parents into social situations with other kids, I would just sit and write everything I observed about them in my spy book rather than interacting socially with them. Needless to say, they thought I was rather odd!

isnt she a perv?