Do you think Rory Gilmore is on the spectrum?

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Do you think the Rory Gilmore character on Gilmore Girls is on the spectrum herself at all? or any other characters on the show as well.

Anyways I do love that show and I am on the spectrum myself, and oh gosh I honestly think Rory Gilmore is on the spectrum, she reads a lot of books and knows a lot of odd details about things and in the early days of the series she had problems with socalizing.

No, just no.

I don't really think Rory Gilmore is an aspie, but I wouldn't be surprised if Alexis Bliedel (sp?) does -- I have never seen her in an interview where she looked comfortable. She would appear to have some social difficulties.

Yeah I also believe Alexis Bledel is on the spectrum too and I believe she has played at least a couple of characters on the spectrum for sure, cause in addition to me suspecting the Rory Gilmore character is on the spectrum, I also suspect that the Lena character she played in Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants was on the spectrum too.

I agree that she does behave atypical compared to her peers. Rory Gilmore is highly intelligent, probably gifted and this seems to add to that her behaviour is different from that of her peers.

She probably also behaves differently, because she has a very untraditional relationship with her young and open-minded mother. This is especially obvious at the start of the series. Their uncommon relationship probably to stems mostly from the way Rory was raised combined with the effect her intelligence had on her development?

Her upbringing was not the same as that of many other children. She was almost like a friend and comrade to her mother instead which does not equate to the typical family role of children in families where she lives.

But if I think about the series some more, I cannot see any autistic traits in her.

Interesting timing... I was just thinking the same thing the other day.

I loved the show and I had the biggest celebrity crush on Lauren Graham!

We can debate this all we want, but ultimately it is just interesting speculation and nothing more. A fictional character is an aspie only if the writers had said so.

No, I don't think Rory's an aspie. Plenty of NTs are intellegent and love to read.

I would only put Rory Gilmore on the spectrum if I could also add Marie Antionette, Joseph Stalin, and the Dark Lord Voldemort. Since this gives you an indication of what I think of the character, you should probably stop reading if you would be offended by these sorts of comments against her.

Rory has no traits that would qualify her as Aspie. She is not particularly intelligent in any area; she is above-average, but is well-rounded with no particular talents. Her discussion of literature comes across as self-aggrandizement; she reads canonical books because they make her look smart, not because she gets anything unique out of them ( at least, we've never seen that she does ). Her journalistic skills are non-existent ( she only got the job at Mitchum's paper because he was her boyfriend's dad, and even then he gave her that hilarious speech about how she'd be better suited to secretarial work ). She does very well in most social situations and is beloved by everyone in both Stars Hollow and Hartford. She shows no defecits in the way she puts her appearance together or the way she talks, other than being disgustingly spoiled and sheltered. Her good grades are because she's good at " playing the game " of academia ( i.e. slavish devotion extra-cirriculars and standardized tests ), not because she does anything unique. The only reason she looks smart is because Stars Hollow is so exaggerated in its small-town buffoonery that simply acknowledging the earth moving around the Sun is an achievement there. And this isn't even going to her taste in guys, which go beyond simple intimacy issues inherited from her mother; she fell for a dutiful dimwit, a cliche rebel, and an egotistical trust-fund baby. Not only do none of these guys seem even remotely Aspie, but if she had any worse taste in men she'd be Eva Braun.

Rory is a spoiled brat who has had her friends and family support her to a fault and bail her out of any tough situation . Any awkwardness she shows is when she reaches a situation where she meets people who do not kneel at the feet of The Virgin Rory, and cannot charm her way out of it. There are plenty of characters who would not qualify as NT on GGs, most notably Paris ( very likely a candidate for some sort of autism ) and Kirk ( who likely has at least one developmental disorder ).

I don't know about Alexis Bledel being on the spectrum, other than the fact that she seems to be a genius at playing detestable snobs.

I don't think Rory was but I think Paris may have been.

Am I alone in thinking that Kirk and Paris are so definitely aspie?

IMO- Kirk yes, Paris maybe, Rory no