Fictional Characters With Undiagnosed Aspergers or Autism

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Adele Mundy from David Drake's "Republic of Cinnabar Navy" series of science fiction books. Shy, socially awkward, not much interested in people or emotions, very coldly logical, great with machines and computers. I doubt Drake consciously intended to make her an aspie, but I related to her almost as soon as the character was introduced.

My favorite Aspie by far is the kid Caulfield in "Frazz" http://www.comics.com/comics/frazz/ , who is always asking the teacher impossible questions so he can get out of doing the work, which bores him. Then he gets to go to detention with Frazz, the poet janitor.

He reminds me so much of my own son, who got sent to special ed for a week because he did his own private chemistry experiment that blew up! - then quit high school because he figured he could do better doing his own computer thing. He's had a rough 36 years so far trying to get his great ideas to take off.

Two characters come to mind:

Dexter, from the Showtime series Dexter. He doesn't feel empathy, has an obsession with blood. (After all he's an unusual super hero/serial killer)

The Doctor, from Doctor Who (new and old). Obsession with Earth history, etc. Has a logical way of looking at things.


-Scott

And then there's Amos in 9 Chickweed Lane http://www.comics.com/comics/chickweed/
In fact there are a number of disfunctional characters in it, as well as an elderly farmer who is in his own separate spectrum.

Holmes?

I've never thought of Caulfield from "Frazz" as an Aspie, just a highly intelligent kid, maybe slightly ADD but mostly bored because of high intelligence. He seems to get along OK with the other kids...they don't pick on him, he plays with them regularly.

Yes, Thorax! Definitely an Aspie.

OK, if Caulfield from "Frazz" is an Aspie even though he doesn't have social skills issues as far as I can see (except with that teacher that no one really likes that well anyway; not all bright NT kids have perfect behavior in school), then there are a lot of other, much-more Aspie-seeming syndicated comic strip characters than him.

Huey from "The Boondocks": Nerdy, very intelligent, not much sense of humor for "normal" or "NT" type jokes, only has one friend, blatantly rude to people he considers stupid (not that some of them probably don't deserve it). Talks mainly about one or two topics.

Gunther from "Luann": Geeky, socially awkward, especially with girls, highly intelligent, dresses "nerdy", but still a very sweet, caring boy who usually gets his heart broken. If I remember correctly there have been social games going on around him which he has had problems understanding or picking up on. Also Luann's brother Brad: Only has one friend, not that great with girls, kind of easily led by his friend T.J. into things that he finds questionable morally. The only thing with him is, he's maybe not intelligent enough.

Jason from "Foxtrot": Geeky/nerdy, highly intelligent, only one friend, always seems to be at odds with his family members (one time at Christmas I particularly remember they were all mad at him).

Stick from "Pre-Teena": The kids pick on her (I thought it was for her looks, but could be her actions as well); a couple times it seems like she's taken things Teena or someone else said literally; seemingly made fun of Teena's Lithuanian grandma who couldn't speak English very well to her face by taking her saying "Kow are you" as if the grandma was asking what kind of cow she was, instead of how she was. (This could have been her being a deliberate smart-@$$, but she seems like a nice kid who wouldn't make fun of her best friend's grandma's poor English..I'm not sure what the writer was trying to imply here.)

Also occasionally I've read a strip called "Agnes" where the main character seems kind of Aspie, but I haven't seen it enough to know for sure...has anyone else seen this strip?

If not doing well socially qualifies, than what about "Monty", even though he doesn't seem intelligent enough. His best friend is someone from outer space, after all.

I suppose Rob from "Get Fuzzy" and Jon from "Garfield" could be Aspie too as their only friends seem to be their animals and they don't date much if ever. Jon is particularly bad about what he thinks women would like vs. the reality.

Some people see Gordon in "For Better or for Worse" as an Aspie, but I'm not sure why. I guess because he wasn't good with girls in high school and had a huge crush on one particularly unattainable girl. If anyone has any insight on this character and why he could be AS, please let me know. He has become very successful in business after not going to college, but not sure that makes someone an Aspie. Since this particular comic strip ages the characters and has followed 3 kids and their friends thoughout school (and the 2 oldest into their early adult lives), it seems like all of them have had friendship or relationship issues at some point, as does everyone usually, AS or NT.

I can't believe Data was mentioned as an Aspie and not Mr. Spock. I bet Holden Caufield could have been an Aspie. Same with Sound wave fromthe old Transformers cartoon. Droopy from the even older Hanna Barbera cartoons was an aspie. That's all for now....

Teno and the others in The Golden Space (I can't remember the author). Well, actually they were genetically engineered to be rational, but they came out very Aspie indeed. There's a really neat scene where they are talking among themselves trying to make some kind of sense out of their parents' behavior...

Napoleon Dynamite and his friends Deb and Pedro.

I wholeheartedly second Dr. House.

Many younger people might not know of Nero Wolfe, the great fictional detective created by Rex Stout, but I believe he could definitely be considered an aspie. He never liked to leave his N.Y. Brownstone manor, did not like being touched, stuck to a beyond-rigid daily schedule, and was easily irritated at any variation in his routines and behaviors. He grew black orchids and was a gourmand, two rather narrow obsessions. He was also brilliant.

Oh yes, definitely Aspie, even more Aspie than Sherlock Holmes! I haven't seen the movies or read the books, but have heard a few Nero Wolfe old-time radio shows from the 1950's (I think the guy playing Wolfe was named Sidney Greenstreet) and that was the first thing I thought too, after learning about AS anyway.

I watch that show a great deal, and I wouldn't call Grissom unempathetic at all. His empathy is allied with pragmatism (as it should be), and his heart's in the right place. Him surrounding himself with a whirlwind of drama queen BS would not aid in evaluating the evidence or seeing justice done -- in fact, quite the converse -- so who would it be helping?

However, there are times as I watch him play with corpse beetles that I think to myself... thank the gods he's on the side of the law in this show, because he'd be the most efficient serial killer on television if he wasn't, and virtually impossible to catch. *shudder* lol

Daniel Cook. He "hosts" a kids show. This kid is 9 yrs and interviews political and influential ppl. He's big here in Cnd. He has eye contact, but doesn't seem comfortable with it. Super smart... doesn't sound like a script. There's just something that sets off all the bells that he is!