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03 Sep 2010, 11:18 am

The child in the Empiror's New Clothes was definatly aspie. Ramona from the Beverly Clearly series and "Fudge" from the Judy Bloom series are just a few I can think of.


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03 Sep 2010, 11:40 am

Ignatius Reilly from "A Confederacy of Dunces"?



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03 Sep 2010, 12:53 pm

mv wrote:
Ignatius Reilly from "A Confederacy of Dunces"?


I love that book.

I think also possibly A Dangerous Woman by Mary Morris
Synopsis on Barnes and Noble website

Martha Horgan is not like other women. She stares. She has violent crushes on people. She can't stop telling the truth. Martha craves love, independence, and companionship, but her relentless honesty makes her painfully vulnerable to those around her: Frances, her wealthy aunt and begrudging guardian; Birdy, who befriends her, then cruelly rejects her; and Colin Mackey, the seductive man who preys on her desires. Confused and bitter, distrusting even those with her best interests at heart, Martha is propelled into a desperate attempt to gain control over her own life.

also a movie with the same title



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03 Sep 2010, 1:54 pm

I'm reading Melville's Moby Dick. Ahab and Elijah.



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03 Sep 2010, 3:09 pm

Encyclopedia Brown is a book about a school boy, who's an aspie.


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03 Sep 2010, 5:11 pm

Stannis Baratheon?


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03 Sep 2010, 8:48 pm

the kid from the curious incident of the dog in the night time



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05 Sep 2010, 4:14 am

I'm sure every literary narrator is an aspie, ranting prose non-stop about the alienation and disconnect of man from society.



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05 Sep 2010, 6:20 am

Felka. Cormac. Fallom.


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05 Sep 2010, 6:21 am

Lisbeth Salander in Millenium.


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05 Sep 2010, 9:54 am

PunkyKat wrote:
The child in the Empiror's New Clothes was definatly aspie. Ramona from the Beverly Clearly series and "Fudge" from the Judy Bloom series are just a few I can think of.


The Emperor's New Clothes kid was there to teach a lesson. Fudge and Ramona are just brats.

As for Ahab, he's obsessed with Moby Dick because the whale bit his leg off and he wants revenge. That's not Asperger's.


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05 Sep 2010, 10:07 am

Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird

Also possibly the friend who was actually based on Truman Capote who was friends with the author as a child.



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05 Sep 2010, 12:26 pm

Synecdoche wrote:
I'm sure every literary narrator is an aspie, ranting prose non-stop about the alienation and disconnect of man from society.




i don't agree with that. If narrators were robots than yes, but narrators are the voices of the writer, no matter how objective they may try to be



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05 Sep 2010, 6:28 pm

Janine Kishi in The Baby-Sitters Club. (I just reread Claudia and the Phantom Caller. :lol:)

Matthew Cuthbert in Anne of the Green Gables



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06 Sep 2010, 4:06 pm

olso4644 wrote:
Synecdoche wrote:
I'm sure every literary narrator is an aspie, ranting prose non-stop about the alienation and disconnect of man from society.




i don't agree with that. If narrators were robots than yes, but narrators are the voices of the writer, no matter how objective they may try to be


It was a joke.



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06 Sep 2010, 4:28 pm

Yeah, i didn't get that, so much. I thought what you said was a valid point, but i just disagreed. I made this whole point in high school, on how though Nick in the great gatsby was supposed to be objective, he was really actually subjective, and no one agreed with me. But i was right.


I'm also rather argumentative. Considering i just argued against you in another post too. Sorry.