Fictional Characters With Undiagnosed Aspergers or Autism

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Just getting to think again, probably mentioned before. Haruhi Suzumiya and Yuki Nagato?

Haruhi is often associated with Asperger's, but it seems more like ADHD mixes with that. Just AS alone... would more likely seem like Yuki.

Just watched Monty Python And The Holy Grail - I felt as if I was in Aspieland. Especially The First Swallow-Savvy Guard, he's an Aspie if I ever saw one.

There's a girl with an ASD in the movie Trick 'r Treat. She lectures about Halloween to a dumbfounded kid.

Severus has got me thinking about other sitcoms I've watched and I have to suggest Alice Tinker from The Vicar of Dibley. I know she is supposed to just be of low intelligence and child-like and not like a real person at all probably, but at least some of the ways in which she's portrayed as those things are very ASD-like when you analyse them. Epitomised by the joke segment at the end of every episode. The second one here is my favourite, the occasional smart thing they give her to say is also very ASD-like, and I always related to the way she could seem so stupid but at times baffle people by sounding so smart.

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Lucius Hunt and Noah Percy , characters in "The Village" ( I love that movie.....)
The characters in Big Bang Theory, except for Penny
Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter
Sorry if this has already been posted

There is an episode in the fifth season of the 1990s t.v. show Northern Exposure that features a character who definitely has Aspergers.

The name of the episode is called "A Bolt of Blue." In this episode, Joel talks to a park ranger who won't leave his observation station that he's been at for fifteen years. The ranger seems very book smart, but says he doesn't want to leave his station and go out into the world because "people just don't like me." I won't say much more other than to say that it is worth checking out (the fifth season is on Netflix).

I've been described as being like Napoleon Dynamite.
I'd also definitely have to say Christian Slater's character Mark from Pump Up The Volume. I really love that movie. It seems like... that guy is me. One of my good friends also said that the character was 'just like me.'

Celebrimbor, from JRR Tolkien's Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. A brilliant craftsman, but rather less brilliant with people. He made the three elven rings after mistaking Sauron for a true maia (basically an angel). Now granted, he was far from the only one Sauron fooled, but he worked closely with him for several hundred years. Once he realized he was betrayed he fought against Sauron, eventually dying in his dungeons refusing to reveal what he'd done with the Three. In addition he loved someone who didn't love him (Galadriel) and didn't go off and find himself someone else. Tolkien describes him as having an "almost dwarvish" obsession with crafts. The information is a bit scant and self-contradictory, but Asperger's would certainly fit. When I wrote him (I write fanfiction) he came out Asperger's before I knew really what Asperger's was and without any intention from me.

Hmmm, Raj and Howard are socially awkward enough, I think.
Though, come to think about it, it is Raj that tends to blurt out uncomfortable truths and has terrible taste for clothes (not that Howard's polo necks and odd belt buckles might pass for normal dress accessories, actually). There's also some distinct non-conformity with gender in Raj as well.
When it comes to Leonard though - well, he has been raised by Dr. Beverly Hofstadter, which is enough to damage a person for life, I think. I'd say Leonard's behaviour is more of the learned type, first it was his mother and (probably) his father, then seven years with Sheldon - it's a miracle he's that normal. In any case he searches and enjoys human relationships more than the others.

That hikikomori on Rozen Maiden might be a demeaning form of an Aspie, along with a myriad of other hikikomoris in anime...