Fictional aspie characters

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Dwight from The Office?

I don't understand why House would have Asperger's. He hates human interraction, but out of personal choice, not out of social ineptitude. If anything, he's an expert on reading people and subtle social cues, much more than most NT's I would say.

I guess this would be a more appropriate place to mention Salad Fingers, instead of the 'famous people' thread.

L, from Death Note, is (to me) an obvious and brilliant aspie. (He is the guy in my avatar, for those unfortunate enough to have never seen Death Note, the only TV show I watch).

Many aspies come to hate human interaction out of choice BECAUSE of our social ineptitude. House's people-reading seems very intellectualized, not intuitive and innate; his misanthropy seems to at least partially stem from this intellectualized people-reading. House also seems to do a lot of repetitive things that seem to be stims with his cane and his red and gray ball.

He's half Vulcan, so doesn't count.

My mom loves watching Monk because she said Adrian is so much like me it's funny.

This may be just me overthinking things, but Marcus from "About a boy" seems very autistic to me, we are reading it in school and I just can't help seeing all kinds of symptoms in him. I haven't ever seen the movie, so I don't know if that comes across there.

Salad Fingers. D: *Shudders*


I admit I never think about characters as autistic or this or that, unless it's stated that they are, because they are just characters in a story, and uhm... I'm more likely to think of archetypes or something rather than diagnoses.

I agree about the "genuine nerd" guy.

Another character that comes to mind is Pollux from the movie "Face Off". He's a computer-whiz type, yet he has difficulty tying his shoe laces.

It was a book? I saw the movie (good movie, by the way) and he struck me as typical-offspring-of-hippie-parent. He also seemed fairly sophisticated with respect to relationships. But that was the movie. The book could be completely different.

The mom made me laugh. I've known so many hippies - she was great. (I mean, except for the part where she was so unhappy.)

How about Carl Childers from "Sling Blade". He can fix a small engine but he won't look anyone in the eye. At the end of the movie, he says that he wants to stay institutionalized because the world is "too big". How many Aspie's don't feel deeply that way at times. I know I do.

I agree that L is aspie, he's almost too odd not to be.

I haven't read the book, so I probably shouldn't even be commenting, but I heard that the guy who wrote the book Nick Hornby, has an autistic son. So it's possible that maybe he might have put some of his son's characteristics into the character.

I saw this movie called Snow Cake, where Sigourney Weaver played an autistic woman. I don't think she was going for AS, if she was she overdid it. But her daughter, who appears in the beginning of the film, definitely seemed to have AS to me, although it's never stated.

How about Willy Wonka? Read the book--he's off the wall, seems to be quite one-sided with his interpretations (square candies that look round!) and doesn't seem to make the best interactions.

As much as I don't like watching movies, I did see the recent Johnny Depp version of the book (and actually enjoyed it, probably because I like the book so much) and I think Johnny Depp seems rather AS in it as Willy Wonka.

I was going to suggest Matilda, also a Roald Dahl character, but then I remembered how well she interacted with the teacher...of course, maybe Miss Honey was just her support?