The dumbest Autism Movie I ever brought on DVD was Murcury Rising... It was so over-simplistic. I am sorry I lived life as a kid with autism and nothing about the kids performance rang true. Maybe it was just little things an autistic person would pick up on that typicals just don't. Rainman while it was very stereotypical was at least more real in the limited very narrow focus it took on the autism spectrum.
Murcury Rising was just DVD tripe. The actor that played the autistic kid was so unbelievible he might as well been Popeye the Salior Man!
The annoying kid in Lost In Space was named Will Robinson and the actor who protrayed him was named Billy Mummy! I am an old gray wolf my kind remembers such things.
That annoying little kid in Lost in Space.
And Anakin Skywalker
So you are telling me that Darth Vader is aspie?!?!?!?
Mary Poppin's and Hurcule Poroit The famous Belgian Detective are also good candidates for aspie's.
Not a movie character, but what about the main character in the book The Stranger, Meursault, by Albert Camus? Or the main character in The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, by J.D. Salinger?
Or Lennie, from Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck?
And for the record, I don't usually read New York Times' Bestsellers, but The Curious Dog in the Nighttime's main character seemed autistic but it never said that he was. Great book, by the way. I thought it was an autobiography, the character was so consistent.
and real quick, the movie I Am Sam?
Was the main character supposed to be autistic? He had some tendencies. I disliked that movie, too sad.
Nope, that's just angsty villains.
Also, what about Max Cohen in 'Pi'?