Aspies For Freedom

There's some books out there where characters may be Aspies, though it's not explicitly stated.

As far as books with definitely AS main characters, which show AS in a more positive light: the only one I know of is Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident Of The Dog in The Night-Time", which is about an autistic teenage detective....some inaccuracies, but I thought it was good.

Continuing on from SoccerFreak's comments, there's a book series out there, something or other to do with wizardry. I can remember one title... "A Wizard Alone."
In the series, one of the books has a character who's autistic, and the book takes place within his mind.

However, it's highly fanciful, in my views.

Incidentally, I'm reading a series now that has a main character that has AS, or at least something like it. The other main character remarks to himself that she must have AS (even though it's spelled aspberger's). Anyway, this person is portrayed as a very private person, with extreme intellectual abilities, a world-famous cracker and also deeply anti-authoritarian. The character defies description, really, and is unusual for any group, be it aspies or NTs. Overall, I think the portrait is pretty good: this girl has been abused by people and state throughout her childhood, rarely ever lets anyone come close, and is constantly underestimated, yet she's also possibly the strongest character in the books.

I don't know whether the series has been translated to English, but the three books that the author, Stieg Larsson, wrote before he died, have been huge successes in Sweden (where the author is from) and Norway. The first book won an award for best Scandinavian crime novel, or some such. I think that demonstrates that there is indeed a market for books with strong AS(ish) characters, at least over here. I dunno what reception the books would get in the UK or US.

There is of course Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon. And I myself have a few Autistic characters, including Ekko and Phebos the latter is more LFA and uses a form of empathy and telepathy to speak to others.

I'm trying to add more of those auties in my books

Writing John has Asperger or Jane is stupid or whatever is poor writing, and thankfully we don't see this often in published books. So there are probably a lot of characters with such traits that you never notice, because it blends so seamlessly into their personality.

I plan on writing a novel, or series of novels featuring characters with various forms of autism, although it takes place in a time period where it wouldn't be described as Aspergers Syndrome.

I plan on writing a novel, or series of novels featuring characters with various forms of autism, although it takes place in a time period where it wouldn't be described as Aspergers Syndrome. So far I have three fully-formed characters, two with Aspergers Syndrome and one with a more severe form.

I have suspected that some of Ann Tyler's characters are autistic, especially Jeremy in "Celestial Navigation" and Morgan in "Morgan's Passing."  Of course, they are not identified as such, but if you know the traits, you can see it.

I read a book recently called "eye contact", can't remember the name of author but she was mother of an autistic child and also a teacher who had set up a special centre for autistic kids in the U.S.

The book was a whodunnit and the main characters were autistic/aspie teenagers....it was quite good if you like crime thrillers.

I also enjoyed the previously mentioned "Curious Incident of the Dog....". I liked the humour in that.

lots have Charitersics that when combinedin the right mix gets an autie. but few are righten to be fully such.

There's a lot of book characters with autistic traits, they aren't always explicitly stated though. I'm working on writing a novel called Vomit Stew: Reflections from an Aspie Girl, told in a diary format. It'll have humor, angst, drama, everything life throws at you from an AS perspective. I hope when it is published you'll enjoy it ^^

There's a book by Dean Koontz called 'By the Light of the Moon' and one of the main characters has autism, Koontz said that Shep was once labelled as a low-functioning Apsie.  Dean Koontz also has other autisic characters in a few of his other books.
(By the way, Dean Koontz is an adult author thus he is not recommended for kids, considering his adult material and themes at times)

there are lot of books about autistics and it was unbelieveable the way they were treated, so different from how we are treated in real life!

Mm.  I have a vague idea for a book with an aspie villain, I've always thought that would be interesting.

'Hello, I have Asperger's Syndrome, an Autism Spectrum Condition.  People with this condition sometimes 'melt down' and are rendered unable to function by stress or unwanted sensations.  If you are reading this, I am feigning such a condition to distract you while an accomplice goes through your pockets for valuables.'

Hey, what's the least useful savant skill you can think of?  His special interests would be things like lock-breaking and munitions, but I'd prefer to give him at least one far fetched but completely pointless ability.

But that doesn't really fit in with his personality; he's obsessed with planning and doing things in order, and he's bored to tears with anything that can't be used to blast things or break locks or sneak about or something like that.  And some other things on those lines.  One of his quirks is a baffling ignorance of pop culture; mention anything from a movie or a book and he'll wonder what the hell you're on about.

...oh, I know.  He can convert bases.  Given any number, he can mentally change it to base 4, or base 12, or binary or whatever you want.  Possibly a useful skill for a hacker, but not for an evil mastermind.