Has anyone mentioned Daria?
Squidward from Spongebob Squarepants reminds me of my aspie husband because he often calls people "moron" but not to their face of course!
What about that loudmouth robot on Futurama? My husband loves that character, not sure what his name is.
I should go to Best Buy and see if they have a boxset of the series. I really don't like buying the DVDs of a series seperatley, because if the last episode ends with a cliffhanger..you have to wait till you buy the new DVD to find out what happens.
I just saw it somewhere. If it wasn't best buy it was amazon.
Luzhin, from Nabokov's The Defence (chess master, thinks of nothing but chess, shambling, disheveled, different reaction from social situations than the norm).
Prof. Larry Fleinhart from the American TV series "NUMB3RS" (only eats white foods, moves twitchily).
Geoff Murdoch from the British TV series "Coupling" (thinks in a very offbeat, very literal manner; paralyzed with embarassment in social situations).
oh yeah i forgot that guy in coupling!! he's gotta be the same one i remember thinking something along the lines of "that is one messed-up aspie". when he met that crazy girl and they had a relationship.
the other guy on numbers should have been aspie (the mathematical brother, the "protagonist") but they sort of made him more and more NT over time. Although he still can't tell when a girl likes him.
Have you seen the movie THE LUZHIN DEFENCE? It's great... terribly sad... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211492/ well, imdb says it's based on that book. he does seem aspie in the movie too.
Thinking of numbers, made me remember BONES in which the lead forensic scientist woman is very aspie.
oh also...
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/numb3rs/bio..._bio.shtml
The guy who plays an aspie-like professor in numbers also played an aspie-like lawyer in ALLY McBEALE:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118254/quotes
I'm not going through an odd phase, I really am odd.
Remember, when you're with me, it's the only time you're not the strangest person in the room. So go ahead, get weird with me.
The world is no longer a romantic place. Some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win, Ally McBeal.
Love. We all want it. Don't all get it. I remember telling my mother in high school I wanted to wait for the perfect girl. And she replied, "Idiot! Even if you found her, she might be holding out for the perfect man." She also said I wouldn't recognize love unless it bonked me on the head. And I retorted, "Well, why don't you come along with me, mom, and if you see love, you hit me on the head so I'll know." It was difficult as a young man taking my mother on dates. And then, one night, not a date night, but just one evening, I turned to my mom and, as i looked into her eyes, I could see... she was dead. She'd passed on quietly from an aneurysm, right there at the table. All she said was, "Ip." Sitting in a chair: a quiet little "Ip". It was her request to have her last words put on her tombstone. And I see people at the cemetery snickering when they read: "Joanna Cage. Beloved Mother. Ip." I miss my mother. Even though she's not here... I know she's still with me, smiling down on me... hoping I'll find love.
Renée Radick: People think you're strange, you know. Just, just sit there and don't talk.
John "The Biscuit" Cage: I am an enigma.
Renée Radick: You're a cute little enigma.
Someone could also try mentioning Lisa Simpson. She is an obvious one. As is Jimmy Neutron and probably Carl and Sheen as well. Kif from Futurama is also probably autistic.
Detective Gorin, from "Law and Order: Criminal Intent", and the male lead (white guy, beard) on "CSI: Las Vegas".
Ooh yeah. But I don't like Goren nearly as much since that episode with the actual aspie character in it.
If you have seen it, you know what I mean.
Hey Amy/Gareth, can we move this thread into the entertainment forum section?
Thanks!
I saw that episode, and I thought that "aspie" villain characterization lacked the little details that one would know about if one had actually met some real aspies, such as voice characteristics, unusual ways of moving, stims, a tendency to talk in monologues etc. I thought it was a characterization straight out of a dry old textbook.
The Unabomber was a schizophrenic. The stuff about doing murders to copy some book was much too loopy and illogical to be the product of an autistic mind. Schizo.
I'm a bit confused about the difference between Donald Duck and Daffy Duck. Which one was the bad tempered one? Which was white and which was black?
As weird as this sounds, I always thought Kiba from wolf's rain had Asperger's Or somthing, His personality seems to fit it. Most of you are probebly thinking Hige would. But I think Kiba would more likely have it.
At the risk of confirming myself as a sad obsessive, I reckon you could put together a half-decent argument for Dangermouse being somewhere on the spectrum, if you conveniently ignore the fact that everything I'm using as 'evidence' was just done to get a laugh.
1. He misses people's intentions. He'll get chucked in a cell by a big creepy monster and say "Well, he seemed nice."
2. He can have trouble prioritising - if the villain's blown up London Bridge and then driven the wrong way down a one way street, he's more likely to nick them for the traffic infringement than the actual crime.
3. He has an arrogant streak which isn't unknown amongst Aspies.
4. He often seems oblivious to Penfold being scared, uncomfortable or in danger.
5. Come to think of that, the only person he hangs out with is a misfit hamster. He's allegedly got (or had) a girlfriend but we never meet her.
6. He wears the same damn thing practically all the time.
7. Intelligence.
8. He does seem to go through obsessive phases - for instance, at one stage he was forever doing yoga, but later it was never mentioned again.
Well, by now I've either convinced you that Dangermouse is Aspie, or that I'm a loony for having thought about it so much...
There might be a book in this, or a thesis: All Cartoon Mice Have Aspergers.
Is Dilbert an aspie?
Potentially possibly maybe.
I reckon. In one episode of the TV version, Dilbert as a little kid is going about rebuilding clocks (I forget exactly what) and generally being a little professor, and his Mum takes him to the doctor and gets told
"I'm sorry, I don't know how to tell you this but.... he's got the knack. He's an engineer."