Asperger's and autism in literature

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Jodi Picoult's latest book "House Rules" is specifically about a guy with AS who gets charged with murder.

WARNING SPOILER ALERT

Basically what happens is that this aspie who's obsessed with forensic science finds his counsellor dead in her bathroom, and with his knowledge of forensics, figures out that his brother is the murderer, and alters the crime scene to make it look like suicide.


The story is fairly interesting (very sad for people w/AS), but I think it is a somewhat realistic portrayal of a aspie. This is especially shown when he reacts violently as the police 'touch' him while arresting him (this is perhaps a little exaggerated), and how he screams, collapses from the pressure of so many people around and demands a sensory break in the courtroom.

Lenny from Mice and Me
Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter
Alan Grant, Ian Malcom, John Hammond, Tim and Dr. Harding from Jurassic Park,

Actually, he was mentally ret*d. And it's called "Of Mice And Men".

My mistake, didn't realise I forgot to add the M; but anyway severely autistic people are refered to as ret*d as well and most so called ret*d people are actually autistic or have Down Syndrome. Perhaps Lenny could have that as well or in addition to autism. ret*d is actualy an outdated term anyway.

I think Nollie tenBoom from the Hiding Place was really aspie becuase she cannot tell a lie. She even tells the Nazis where her brothers are hiding, thinking she would get in trouble with God for telling a lie if she did not. Clearly she wasn't an NT.

re: Of Mice and Men
It's been a long time since I read the story but remember his naivete regarding the foreman's girlfriend that led to the conflict towards the end.

No, it's okay! Or maybe, you want to tell me it isn't.

I believe Lenny was supposed to be portrayed as mentally handicapped but I do see some autistic traits in him - particularly his love for touching soft things.

Cindy in John Coyne's "The searing"

Jason in Nora Raleigh Baskin's "Anything but typical"

Henry in Christine Morton-Shaw: "The hunt for the seventh"

I also think the princess in "The princess and the pea" must be autistic or highly sensitive; who else would feel a pea placed under 10 (or was it 20?) mattresses?

Zeke from my Pokemon fanfiction, "Lucario and the 10 Ordeals."

I'm writing a Pokemon fanfic with an Aspie Lucario as the protagonist. Zeke has an altered sense of danger, which helps him in a way throughout a mystery that threatens the safety of the world of Pokemon. However, like all Aspies, he has his quirks and social misunderstandings. This will affect his ultimate goal in the story, to solve the mystery.

Can Pokemon even have autism? They aren't even human; giving them human mental disorders is rather odd.

Josh's uncle Patrick in Celia Rees' "Truth or dare"

A character from a short story in a Charles de Lint book...actually, many of the characters in the book could be any member on here!

For some reason, when I read Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Possessed, Kirillov really struck me as having some kind of disorder at the very least. Of course not intended by the author, but still..

In the manga, "With the Light", there is a little kid, who is the main character's son, with autism. I'm not sure if it's an accurate portrayal or not, so I would like to read it first.

The Little Mermaid (Andersen story), and the way the Snow Queen makes Kai feel/act. I think a lot of Andersen's stories show ASD traits. Also Luna Lovegood in HP.

Lord Brideshead in Brideshead Revisited.

"'I have to turn a thing around and around in my mind until it's right side up to me, but by then it's upside down to everyone else. But it's the same [thing], you know.'"
"All that he was known for certain to have done was started a large collection of matchboxes."