Fictional Characters With Undiagnosed Aspergers or Autism

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Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
Amy Farrah Fowler (The Big Bang Theory)
Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock)
Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes (2009 film))
Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Rorschach (Watchmen) (maybe)
Cameron (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) (maybe)

Has anyone mentioned Moss from the I.T Crowd?
Henry Wilcox, the eccentric young sculptor from Call of Cthulhu?

Bull Shannon from Night Court. Bull is socially inept and childlike, but despite often coming across as intellectually clueless, he has flashes of brilliance.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Ok, this is the first character that I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that they are supposed to be autistic.

Ella the harpy from The Son of Neptune. I'm almost certain she is supposed to be an autistic savant or is based off of one. The first time she speaks it is explicitly stated that she does not make eye contact, she speaks in a childish way consisting of simple phrases and referring to herself in third person, and she randomly quotes books out of context, but it is shown that she is more intelligent than she appears, having a complete memory of everything she has read and is very hyperlexic. She also dislikes being touched.

Has Carlton Banks from Fresh Prince of Bel Air been mentioned?

Has anyone mentioned Nero Wolfe, from the old mystery novels by Rex Stout?

Obsessed with and expert in gourmet food and orchids. Rigid schedule, visits his orchid room at same time and for same duration each day and lets nothing interfere with this. Despises his routine being disrupted for any reason, even for his investigation business. Only in business to support his interests.

Very rarely leaves his apartment, and then only if absolutely necessary and after being badgered into it by his partner Archie who is probably his only friend, except for his chef and orchid grower who share his special interests.

Little to no social skills, pretty much a loner. He has little interest in women and does poorly interacting with them. Seems to be asexual.

And also, not necessarily aspie traits, but is probably a genius and he is arrogant.

Star Trek Voyager's Seven of Nine, closer to HFA than aspie based on her complete and total lack of social/emotional ability (probably due to her previous life in the collective, but I say it still counts. That's why she's my favourite Trek character, along with Spock and Data).

I second Dr. Spencer Reid; it's actually been suggested - by an unsub no less - that he had "autistic leadings" (season one's episode "Broken Mirror"), and all his adorably quirky, obviously aspie traits can't be ignored. He's my favourite character for that show too (was even before I found out what autism was or that he and I both had it.)

Well... Seven of Nine, Data and Spock are not natural pure humans and so I wouldn't count them. However, they are characters that are appealing to an aspie mind and I guess that counts for something. Remember too that Data was created to be emotionless on purpose, as his brother, Lor, was a monster when equipped with emotions but without the necessary moral framework to deal with them appropriately. Spock was a half human that was socialized as a child with Vulcans and Seven of Nine had a similar life experience away from normal human children as she was assimilated early in life.

Oddly, I used to have a teacher in the 10th grade that called me Data...

Velma caught my eye with being cute. she has been very attractive to me. wish she was real. i would date her in a split. but she shouldn't have to suffer emotions with shaggy. Velma it's ok to be what you are.

Rin in Katawa Shoujo, definitely.

Lisa Simpson
Mr. Monk

remember that the entire context and premise of the movies is a schizotypal's territory to begin with


house has an encyclopedic knowledge of things that people don't understand, and one consistently sees him explaining things to people that they didn't think of

from the sherlock holmes movie' his brother's NOO--O. "he doesn't" and his predictable behaviour, every day the same routine or something like that to the point where watson figures something's up because he's changed it up, and I've kinda done the holmes thing in fights before where you picture the next few actions

oh, many of these have already been mentioned


on the anime side of things, one might wonder if heero, zechs and treize have aspects of it, if you combine this with the zero system you have a full on aspie of a certain variety


not people, but I've also noticed that from naruto, there's "the 3 great eye techniques" a certain correlation can be found in "skill areas of autism" and the eye techniques

sharingan, byakugan, rinnegan

Sharingan means "Copy Wheel Eye"
it eventually gains predictive capabilities later down the line, I'd translate that concept as a "been there done that seen this before" sorta thing coupled with the extreme pattern recognition of some autistics

The Byakugan (白眼; Literally meaning "White Eye", Meaning (Viz) "All Seeing White Eye")
patterns. you're seeing all the patterns all the little things


Rinne (輪廻) is the Japanese term for Samsara, the cycle of reincarnation or rebirth in several Indian religions. This is reflected in the names of all Six Paths of Pain, which share the names with Samsaric realms of reincarnation.

Samsara means "to flow on", to perpetually wander, to pass through states of existence.

this has huge implications when you follow george bernard shaw's exalting einstein not as a maker of empire, but a maker of universe - if you follow naruto at all

It was said that in times when the world is in disorder, a person is sent down from the heavens to become either a "God of Creation" who will calm the world, or a "Destroyer" who will reduce everything to nothingness

The concept of special ninja techniques limited by bloodline inheritance may have been inspired in part by the works of Futaro Yamada, which strongly influenced later depictions of ninja in fiction. In particular, The Kōga Ninja Scrolls (甲賀忍法帖, Kōga Ninpōchō), published in 1959, featured a pair of warring ninja clans that, through selective breeding, had produced ninja with a variety of deformities, mutations, and special abilities, even dōjutsu.


I'd argue that these are eastern holistic ways of putting the world, that many on the spectrum may be able to identify with to a degree, in this sense, it's not putting something to the character, but rather it's putting character to the concept, and maybe the buddhist temples are that way for a reason? the repetitive calming chants.... and all that stuff

I don't want to brag a ton, I'm very dysfunctional when it comes to some of this stuff, but at the same time I keep seeing the possibility of these things, and physical activity brings up geometry in my head often

the reason for doing this is simple, I don't know about you but when I'm having trouble figuring something out, I write out everything and then just compare what looks right, or I suddenly stumble across something and get in the zone and then have no issues, so another aspect is "that guy with all those notes" might not be schizophrenic necessarily, the differentiation here would have to be on what is said and how it's said, obsession with patterns that change slightly might not be schizophrenic, but rather something else, namely a coping mechanism for the deluge of information and an attempt to scribe current thoughts for comparison later

I guess I'm trying to say that you should look for "the crazy people who write on walls" as well, maybe they just have REALLY bad communication skills, in fiction where demons are running about shredding everyone, this isn't delusions, or hallucinations, this is difficulty communicating very real events, cryptic messages that make sense later are another way to do this, look at dumbledore? another example, in a fictional universe is that kid from the shining, REDRUM REDRUM, the key here is in that universe, the person is correct, and the reasons are there, it's just that in that universe, the supernatural exists in a tangible manner, so one should comment that some may have aspects/touches of the thing, as opposed to "are" autistic, another interpretation is that the kid sees the father's behaviour and all the supernatural ghosts are "ghosts in the system" so to speak, little patterns others miss, that lead to a conclusion if one considers them, only obvious when the writing's... on the wall

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~



I don't want to say neo in the matrix is autistic... (I don't see the connection too much) but sometimes it almost seems like that point in the first movie at the end where he sees everything as shaped coding, is some pseudo equivalent to how people with autism can see the world

I can't think of any that are, but I do think not a single one of the Homestuck characters are in anyway anything but Neuro-typical.

How about Eddie Kaspbrak from Stephen King's It?

I know this is missing the point because she is a unicorn and all, but Marigold from Heavenly Nostrils comes across as being both mildly autistic as well as very narcissistic.

The Professor, from Gilligan's Island.