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.
Comicbook guy makes me think of the episode where Homer became Mr. X: "There is no emoticon to express my anger!"
Just sounds to me like an aspie thing to say, it certainly stuck with me.
Correction:
"There's no emoticon to express what I'm feeling!"
Sorry, I am a Simpsons nut.
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.
Not to mention the obvious fact that aspie murders are far more intelligent and thorough than NT murderers. Took years and a federal lie for them to find the Unabomber.
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.
That's because it's spelled Kubrick. The guy from 2001: A Space Odyssey? I'm surprised you haven't heard of a name THAT big.
I'm really considering at least Rodney McKay (Stargate Atlantis) for the Aspie nomination list. He's definitely textbook. Daniel Jackson is possibly on the edge.
On Star Trek: I'm personally ruling out characters with artificial / android background, partially since these don't behave like Aspies but often behave like computers instead, which leaves me with at least Redge Barclay. Kes is an edge case since she was very shy on the ship but did not show any stereotypical traits. Wesley Crusher is a good example, however.
Other sci-fi shows: Simon and River Tam from Firefly, with River more to the Kanner side of autism while Simon is just socially clumsy but willing to interact, and the Tenth Doctor is definitely a good nominee (if only judging by his 'geek chic' dress sense!)
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