Fictional Characters With Undiagnosed Aspergers or Autism

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Most of the young men in Haruki Murakamis books

Just dawned on me that all of my favorite fictional characters are Aspies.



Doesn't matter.

Sorry if I state characters already mentioned, but I really can not afford to sit here all night reading 31 pages of responses.

The following are majorly personal speculations. Any disagreement statements will be welcomed.

-Lisa Simpson, the Simpsons.
-Rachel Berry, Glee.
-Cody Martin, the Suite Life of Zack and Cody and the Suite Life on Deck.
-Justin Russo, Wizards of Waverly Place.
-Artie Abrams, Glee.
-Ferb Flecture, Phineas and Ferb.
-Mr.Spock, Star Trek.
-Data, Star Trek
-Brick, Parenthood.
-Sheldon Cooper, the Big Band Theory (perhaps he has officially been diagnosed?)
-Leigh Goodwin, SOS Titanic (1979 Film)
-Parker, As the Bell Rings

I will probably submit this comment only to recall several dozen more, but these are the only recallable characters presently.

Mr Purutu the Guidance Councelor from The Emperor's New School

He has a stereotypical monotone voice, wears glasses and has a literal style of communication.
He collects windchimes and polishes them obsessively.
Windchimes fill his office.
He calls his windchimes his "friends" and names them.

He talks about his windchimes whenever students ask for his advice.
He believes that all problems can be solved by listening to windchimes.

He has a comical emotional "flatness" that contrasts sharply with the emotional outpourings of the other characters. He is calm and still: the opposite of Kuzco's flambouyant and hyperactive personality.

He doesn't mean to come across as insensitive, distant and self absorbed, but the other characters seem to interpret him that way.

He is good at giving out straight forward practical advice.
Perhaps he thought that's what being a counselor was about.
His advice is sensible and to the point.
He encourages people to solve problems using their own initiative.
He isn't a "shoulder to cry on", but he is basically friendly and seems to care about others in his own way.

John Kintner, the writer from whom Morton Rainey 'borrowed' a short story once.
Could not speak very coherently and could only express himself through writing. Though he is only menioned in passing, the idea the reader gets is of a quiet and withdrawn man who had no idea how much talent he got and didn't pursue a writer's carreer - lack of motivation or drive, etc. Possibly went to the army so that other people could take charge instead of him.

Shul'gin, the Russian literature teacher in Paustovsky's 'Dalekie gody' (Years long ago). For all I know, the book is supposed to be an autobiography so the man must have beally existed. Anyway, he is decribed as 'quiet and harmless', a teacher who didn't care much about his subject and his students's grades. When confronted with a pushy or over-emotional student, Shul'gin would change their grade to a higher one so as to get rid of interaction or emotion that was uncalled for. He could not stand too much emotion in real life as he got all he needed in his books.
Shul'gin had an specific character trait - he could not stand listening to nonsense, that is, any kind of illogical or ungrammatical statement. Any such thing would set him off and the resulting state is very similar to a meltdown. He would stim intensively, tear down books and other stuff and could not speak apart from issuing an order that the student who caused this leave the room immediately. This peculiarity was well known to everyone in the school and was even used once by a student to put an end to a class.

When I first read this, I was very surprised to discover that there were other people - apart from me - who could be very upset by written or spoken nonsense. I usually try to withdraw but if I can't, might rage and shout at the guilty party or throw something at them. Sounds rather autusic to me and I have never seen this trait in a NT anyway.

Maya, Dr. Dolittle's daughter in Eddie Murphy's Doctor Dolittle (1998).

It does definately state that it's Asperger's on some copies, but I think the author changed his mind later on so I think the later prints don't state what it is he has exactly. He does seem quite extreme for just AS though.