There was an episode of CSI or Law and Order, one of those shows, where one of the main characters is an Aspie, and there was an Aspie for one of the episodes. He arranged things in sets of a certain number obsessively, and was obsessed with numbers. I can't remember the episode too well, but I'm sure there's a synopsis out there somewhere.
There's a really lame BBC TV drama series here in the UK called Waterloo Road. They had a character called Karla Bentham who was meant to be a school student with Aspergers, but I think she was only in like two episodes and it sucked of course.
Who knows of any?
By this I mean characters in books, TV, and film that have autism diagnoses - not ones who just show the traits.
(Meega is pondering research on how autistic people have been portrayed over the years.)
So far I know of:
Books - Chris Boone in The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night-Time"
TV - Lily (All My Children)
The autistic little boy on Eureka
Film - Raymond (Rain Man) (of course)
The mom in Snow Cake
Any others?
snow cake me and my friend try to watch it but i was getting annoyed and it was not making any sence the mom in the movie has hfa ,but like my friend who nt say it was being exzited the beghavior ,she works with some people all diff leavel and she now me .some things were right but most was like huh
oh one more when i was a teen st else where was a tv show and the son dr was autisc that was done much better.the only tv moive my mom could relte to was that movie mircle run on life time they were more close to how i was
In Stephen King's "The Regulators," one of the main characters is this young autie boy.
"Eye contact"...A thriller/whodunnit about Aspie kids, can't remember the author, but it was a not bad read.
My mom used to watch this one show called Judging Amy when I was little and there was an autistic boy on one episode. That's actually the first time I had ever heard of autism (I was like 5 at the time).