Fictional characters with AS?

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^What's wrong with what I said?

Daria from the 1990s MTV animated series of the same name?

Monotone voice, direct.
In the 1990s they did not code Level 1 types. I do not remember anybody using the term “coded” to mean casting a character a certain way without acknowledging it being used in the 90s.

I remember Daria and I can see her being on the spectrum! It's pretty neat that her first appearance was on "Beavis and Butthead" as a character.

Michael Keaton's portrayal of Bruce Wayne in the 1989 Batman movie strikes me as being on the Autism Spectrum. He seems very inward drawn and has that gaze that I recognize. Even though he seems to have this outward appearance of a wealthy well connected billionaire it looks like he dosen't like social occassions very much. He is one of my favorite Bruce Waynes. Of course this is up to debate as there is nothing official.

Nothing.
Ayumu Kasuga is a fictional character with autism.

Max Braverman, a little boy in the TV series "Parenthood" (2010-2015) is actually written into the script as being, and is ID'd on air as having aspergers, and is getting therapy for it in the storyline.

He is the first and only "fictional character" I know of who is actually so identified in the story. And his portrayal seems rather true-to-life IMHO.

So thats ONE fictional character that cant be disputed (despite what certain individuals who get upset about the idea of fictional characters having real disorders may say).

There are a number of TV characters who seem to be aspie/autistic like the girl in "Bones", or Sheldon Leonard. And "Brick" in that sitcom of few years ago.

Whats interesting is looking at characters in fiction written prior to Kanner and Aspergers.

Sherlock Holmes has a cartoonish unrealistic similarity to actual aspies. But the character Boo Radley in "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a more realistic character who could be said to be autistic/aspie who was created in and lived in a time before those terms existed.

Well, I referred to SpongeBob SquarePants as a "she" instead of "he"...

Who is Ayumu Kasuga?

It's worth mentioning again:

Lilith from "Cheers." Big-time. Very socially awkward, sits isolated reading books at the bar while everyone else socializes. Never smiles. Loves her psychology research. Monotone voice. Same clothes every time. Direct, blunt.

Wilson from "Home Improvement." No social life. Special interests in quoting famous people and collecting strange things. Very knowledgeable of all sorts of esoteric topics.

I heard about that.

Her friends call her Osaka.



Here she is trying to blow up Chiyo-chan.

There was a character in the musical Bye Bye Birdy who literally stimmed and hit himself on the head when he got upset

I haven't seen the show, but I have seen the 1989 film of the same title on which the show is said to have been loosely based, and in that film, there is a boy--the son of the Steve Martin character--who displays possible ASD traits. I can't recall all the details, but he suffers from severe anxiety, appears to have deficits in social communication, has embarrassing freakouts in public, and is experiencing difficulties in school and being pushed into special-ed. The a-word is never mentioned in the film, the school simply says he has "emotional problems," which is what one psychologist said about me when I was that kid's age.

At the time the film came out, it was just one year after Rain Man, which for a long time was practically the general public's only image of how autism presents itself. The term "Asperger's" hadn't caught on yet; that wouldn't happen until at least the early '90s. A lot of autistic kids from that generation went undiagnosed and were thought to have other problems, such as learning disabilities or that vague term "emotional problems."

1. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)

2. Newt Scamander (Fantastic Beasts)

In 1994 the medical community officially expanded autism into a "spectrum" of varying severity, and "aspergers" was recognized as official dx, but one of several under the "autism spectrum" rubric. It wasnt until like 2018 that medicine changed its mind and decided that aspergers wasnt a thing...and just lumped into autism(level one autism without speech delay). So since the TV series came out in the early 2000s they were able to label the character as "aspergers".

Sam the Mayor from Bye Bye Birdy. That was who it was

The character Walter Wight in Breaking Bad seems to have an AU identity to me.