Fictional Characters With Undiagnosed Aspergers or Autism

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I don't know if she actually has AS or not, probably not, but I can relate to the way Belle is treated in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. The town folk all think that, despite looking normal (pretty, even), she's actually a big weirdo because she loves to read and seems to have her head in the clouds all the time. In fact, the first song in the cartoon is all about how the townsfolk think Belle is really different from everyone else. Belle also has no interest in Gaston, who the rest of the girls fawn over. Her father is an inventor, so she could have inherited his intellect and was probably educated by him, which enables her to see a reality beyond what the ignorant town people can see. Maybe her father actually has AS - he's a crazy inventor afterall, and she inherited some of his intellectual aspie traits...

This is what I often feel like, as though I can "see" beyond what everyday people can see, because I am constantly thinking and analyzing everything. Of course, if you were to talk about some of these things people would just think I was nuts because they can't see beyond their narrow worldview.

Has anyone seen the new show "Bob's Burgers"? There's a character on that show named Tina would suspects that she might be autistic, but yet when she told her parents that they didn't really believe her, they just thought she was socially awkward. Not only that, but she's also kind of manish too (no offence).

Wow don't have time to read all of those. I'd say Dr Xavier from the X-Men (high functioning), Pippin from Lord of the Rings "films"? (Or even Tolkien himself perhaps but not fictional).

I've been watching Olivia recently. It's about a universe where people have basicaly been replaced by pigs. Olivia seems very ASish to me or at least extreme ADHD. Everything has to be just so with her and her teacher's attidue reminds me of my teachers' attidute, although Mrs. Hoggenmuller isn't abusive.

Bull Shannon, from Night Court.
Bull is socially clumsy and naive, often saying things that are unintentionally crude or gross - such as when he wrote a children's book about carnivorous dragons, then was filled with horror and dismay that his book might frighten children. And yet he can sputter little known facts, or can speak eloquently about certain subjects - such as when he told Harry how some scientific problem could be solved with yak hair. Or when he and Dan go out to pick up women, and Bull's pick up line is telling a girl how long her intestinal tract is.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Somebody surely must have mentioned it already, but I'd say Susan Calvin from I, Robot has Asperger's.
I haven't seen any of the movies but I just dug out my old copy of the book.

Also, Gloria Weston, the little girl that preferred to play with a robot than with other children. There is a nice picture in my book showing Gloria and Robbie after he saved her from being ran over and I remember that when I was a little girl myself (I think I read I, robot for the first time at about 5 or 6) I did identify strongly with the girl in the picture. I even remember telling my mother or perhaps my brother that I would rather prefer a robot than other children around, causing a brief surge of eyebrow raising.