Fictional Characters With Undiagnosed Aspergers or Autism

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OMG! You made me remember a very important character from that novel that I thought "she's soo totally aspie!! !": Remedios, the Beautiful!! ! how did I forget that?! ---> people: read this book. This character is like, the quintescence of Asperger's. Or autism. No, Asperger's.

And yeah, one could say Macondo is the "town" version of a person with Asperger's. And this is supposedly the book that represent us, colombians. This explains soo many things...

Ash Ketchum from Pokemon - Always bragging about himself, obsessed about becoming a Pokemon master, and getting into countless arguments with Misty and Brock

Dwight Schrute from The Office - terrible social skills, and naive, driving the other coworkers nuts

Milton Waddams from "Office Space"

Fred and Lizzie from "Drop Dead Fred"

Mewtwo from "Pokemon: The First Movie" - he turns against everyone

Team Rocket's Meowth - he talks unlike other pokemon!!

Jack Dawson from "Titanic."

Chloe O'Brien on the TV show "24"

In Scalzi's "Old Man's War" universe, the Ghost Brigades... all of them.

His short story "The Sagan Diaries" seemed to capture my experience better than anything else I've read.

The whole book is what I basically call having Asperger's. Everything from not being to tell what is real or not to every character shutting themselves to their science to the solitude to the childish feel to the journalistic/factual writing style to the impressive amounts of detail that don't allow you to tell what is important and what is not important and mimic a lack of filter.
Remedios the Beauty was probably the strongest example of autism (she probably had higher autism as to opposed to the asperger's of everyone else), but she is not the only example of it; the whole book is an example of it.
Marquez probably did it without intention, but that whole book basically proves that he has some form of autism.

This made me want to reassume the reading of this book (once I'm free of all my homework and stuff).

The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi:

Haruhi Suzumiya - Aspergers (and ADHD)
Nagato Yuki - Autism
Kyon, Mikuru, Koizomi - NT

Peter Gibbons from Office Space

I started a question/observation like this on Hulu.com. The other person from the Bones series that people think have is Dr. Zack Addy. Btw, the people on Hulu dont think Temperance has it. To them, she's just hyperrational as a result of a traumatic childhood. <shrug>

Ror from Watchmen fits it perfectly (Ozy has the genius syndrome, which is why he can't relate to people. But, you could make an argument for him having it that I could agree with).

the doctor, hes constantly acting non human, he doesnt fit in with his own race. and hes a scientific genius!

HAL 9000

Then again he's a computer he's supposed to think analytically and not lie.

Eric applebaum, the little boy in Mr Magoriums Wonder Emporium. He doesnt have friends, has an obsession with hats, makes friends with animals, plays alone, really smart, takes things literally.

I think she's the one with AS. I could identify with her the most.

Edward from Cowboy Bebop (she has an ASD, definitely)

There's even a reference to autism in the title of an episode ("Toys in the Attic").