If you have seen Lion king 1.5, it is pretty obvious that Timon is an aspie (in the meerkat way, of course!)
1. He doesn't fit in with the "normal" meerkats.
2. He isn't really scared of hyenas until they come right close to him. Uncle Max gave him a hard time about his refusal to keep safe underground.
3. His only real friend was Ma, until he met Pumbaa.
4. "He takes things literally," according to Ma.
5. He can't stand background noise ("I Just Can't Wait to Be King")
6. He talks fast and rigidly, so Pumbaa might see him as sort of rude.
7. He likes things to go his way.
According to the featurette, "Behind the Legend," Uncle Max states that Ma just spent too much time cuddling him and forgot to "teach him how to be a meerkat." But I don't think that is any excuse for odd behavior. He could have easily just watched other meerkats dig and then he would know the meerkat way of life. But he didn't, and look where that got him: he found a new home for all his people to live happily ever after. :smile:
Just imagine if us real-life aspies found Hakuna Matata as well. :grin:
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I think "Squidward Johannsen Tentacles" (from sponge bob square pants) has at least some Aspergian trails.
Because he hates Sponge bob's jokes. is quite serious but has outrages of childishness sometimes. lives alone and likes only few solitary activities like playing clarinet or drawing and sculptureing. and maybe quite an underachiever because he works as a cashier.
The creator Stephen Hillenburg could as well be a bit Aspergerish. i mean does any NT do study marine biology and then/to create an underwater cartoon world? and the humor of this cartoon reminds me very much of my own.
From what I recall of King of the Hill (wow, is it really more than four years since I last watched television?), the guy who talks really fast may have AS.
If so, it's not because he talks the way he does; that's a Southern dialect--I don't remember exactly where from.
Thanks for the mentions of all those webcomics; I'll look at them, or some of them.
Have you read "8-bit theater"? If you're at all familiar with role-playing games or video games, you might find it absurdly, laugh-until-you-hyperventilate amusing. And the author seems, from his posts, like a great guy. It's at nuklearpower.com.
Can we extend the topic of this thread to fictional characters in general with Asperger's, whether or not they are cartoons?
Perceval (aka Parzifal) from the Holy Grail stories. He's intelligent, but very naive, and he's not sure how to deal with other peoples' emotions (when he leaves his mother to go with King Arthur's knights, he's confused by her tears). He's also very literal-minded; for instance, he misses out on learning the secret of what the Grail is because he won't ask "What is it?", his mother having told him that it's polite not to speak unless spoken to.
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).
Comic Book Guy is just a complete A--hole.
Hey, I like Comic Book Guy! I want to imbibe his strange wisdom.
And I don't know if Lisa is an Aspie, so much as very intelligent, and therefore shunned, and therefore withdrawn and sad.
Danny, from "Unleashed", might have Asperger's, or he might just be unused to normal human interaction because he was so brutalized.
Detective Gorin, from "Law and Order: Criminal Intent", and the male lead (white guy, beard) on "CSI: Las Vegas".
Edd (Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy), Excel (Excel Saga)
That's all I can think of right now
I have been likened to Daria.
Ohhh, well, it's not just cartoons.
Animated Media Aspies:
Zakuro from Tokyo Mew Mew
Sailor Mercury from Sailor Moon
Tecna from Winx Club
Griselda from Winx Club
Berdine from Bratz
Dr. Doppler from Treasure Planet
Snow White from.. guess what, Snow White
Lilo from Lilo and Stitch
Belle from Beauty and the Beast
Ariel from The Little Mermaid
Prudence from Cinderella II
Live Action Media Aspies:
Chloe O'Brien from 24
London Tipton from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. (As well as Arwin, Tapeworm and Cody from Suite Life. Good grief, that's a lot, and they're all different.)
Jane Hathaway from The Beverly Hillbillies (Hence, my username. I identify a lot with Miss Jane).
Chelsea Daniels from That's So Raven
Jackie from That 70's Show (What's Jackie's last name again?)
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It's very neat that a lot of Disney heroines could have AS. Walt Disney was rumored to have it himself.
I never seen London, Lisa Simpson, and Berdine as Aspies.
Of course not. That's because they don't fit into the Aspergian stereotype. They're the very rare (and from observations, mostly female) ..... subtype I myself am in.
Or I was misdiagnosed and instead have something that hasn't been defined yet.
And wait...I didn't mention Lisa Simpson. But point recieved.
Oh, Susan from EGS? I didn't know anyone else read it? Oh, and Raj from Camp Lazlo may be, other than the fact he shows slight OCD.
Well, I am going to buck things and throw in Soundwave from Transformers. Compare him to the other characters and he was quite different. Plus, he was the only person I could relate to as a child, since he had no personallit to speak of just like me and spoke in monotone, just like me. So I liked him a lot and still do. I think I actually used to pray to him as a child. I know I talked to him a lot. I don't give a hoot that he is a robot...he had a very different personallity than any of the other Transformers...everyone else had far more personallity and vocal change than he did.
awwwww that sounds cute 
I feel the same way about other things too so don't feel silly. I want to go see it now.
Hmm. I think I'll have to go with Dib from Invader Zim. I mean, he's got the obsession thing down pretty well, and doesn't seem interested at all that people don't listen to his obsessive monologues of paranormal things, except when it gets him ridiculed or beat up, which is quite often, and also consistent with the autistic experience. He is also very intelligent in math and science (he was able to repair an alien spaceship that landed in his yard - granted, Gaz was the one to get it fully functional at the end, but it is no less remarkable).
Now that I think of it, Professor Membrane and Gaz seem kinda autistic, too. His sister Gaz is obsessed with video games and pizza, and doesn't seem to enjoy communicating. Unfortunately, she frustrates easily with Dib's obsessiveness and directs her anger toward him by beating him up. His father, on the other hand, being a world-famous scientist who is completely absorbed in his work, seems rather distant emotionally. It's one darn obsessive family situation there.
I suppose it could be argued that Dib is just an outcast and not autistic, but something about that boy just strikes me as 'yup, that's just like me.'
Well, I am going to buck things and throw in Soundwave from Transformers. Compare him to the other characters and he was quite different. Plus, he was the only person I could relate to as a child, since he had no personallit to speak of just like me and spoke in monotone, just like me. So I liked him a lot and still do. I think I actually used to pray to him as a child. I know I talked to him a lot. I don't give a hoot that he is a robot...he had a very different personallity than any of the other Transformers...everyone else had far more personallity and vocal change than he did.
awwwww that sounds cute I feel the same way about other things too so don't feel silly. I want to go see it now.
Hmm. I think I'll have to go with Dib from Invader Zim. I mean, he's got the obsession thing down pretty well, and doesn't seem interested at all that people don't listen to his obsessive monologues of paranormal things, except when it gets him ridiculed or beat up, which is quite often, and also consistent with the autistic experience. He is also very intelligent in math and science (he was able to repair an alien spaceship that landed in his yard - granted, Gaz was the one to get it fully functional at the end, but it is no less remarkable).
Now that I think of it, Professor Membrane and Gaz seem kinda autistic, too. His sister Gaz is obsessed with video games and pizza, and doesn't seem to enjoy communicating. Unfortunately, she frustrates easily with Dib's obsessiveness and directs her anger toward him by beating him up. His father, on the other hand, being a world-famous scientist who is completely absorbed in his work, seems rather distant emotionally. It's one darn obsessive family situation there.
I suppose it could be argued that Dib is just an outcast and not autistic, but something about that boy just strikes me as 'yup, that's just like me.'
I think I read or saw somewhere that Dib has OCD, But yeah...
Well, he did self-diagnose himself obsessive compulsive in Gaz, Taster of Pork at his surprise of having missed that there were two remaining power points in the spelldrive (yeah, you can kinda tell I perseverated on this show for a number of years...). Possible, but I know before the AS diagnosis came in, I speculated everything from OCD to schizophrenia, despite having no symptoms of the latter.
Actually, I probably WAS obsessive-compulsive when in elementary school...I had to eat my sandwich in exactly twenty bites in a certain pattern, or it would be a very bad day. I was an obsessive counter as well, but nowadays no longer.
Both Invader Zim and Dib from Invader Zim have AS just look at them obsessive one track minded characters who only want one thing and don't really care about anyone or anything else.
OMG i love that show. I agree with the Zim part, it's especially amusing to see how he has poor social skills within his own speicies. When I was thinking about it a while ago I also thought Zim could have ADHD too cause he's extremly hyper and gets easily distracted. I also agree with the Dib thing, but there was an episode that refereed to him as OCD.
Not cartoon characters, but they fit the Aspie description:
Lily of "All My Children" is, as far as I know, the only longterm recurring character on any TV show who has been explicitly declared autistic in the storyline. She first appeared many years ago as an institutionalized, nonverval child using computers for facilitated communication. She's since grown up and become verbal, but still has communication oddities and sensory quirks (i.e. wearing sunglasses indoors against annoying light.)
I LOVE LILY!!! SHE'S SUCH A SWEETHEART!!!!!
my mom watches that show, sometimes I listen in and I have to say Lily is my favorite character.
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