Okay, so the most obvious one is Dr. Temperance Brennan on Bones, as the producers and Emily Deschanel have all stated Bones is supposed to have Aspergers.

Another I've found is this: Dr. Nicholas Rush on Stargate Universe. I was re-watching the first season recently (still am, in fact) and both he and Eli make me think "Autism". Rush could be categorized as the type of autie/aspie some people on this board have mentioned having a dislike for, though he's personally my favorite character. Yeah, he's arrogant and doesn't like to explain things to people. But isn't that sometimes the case with people with autism? We feel something is so plain that anyone could see it, but they don't. I know that's happened to me on more than one occasion. Eli, I think has mild autism. How many of us have ever had jobs or whatever that we just knew weren't for us? How many of us want everyone to know 'everything', even if it'd be better to lie?

Of course, if I'm mentioning those two, another would be Rodney McKay on SG1 and Atlantis.

Last person I can think of off the top of my head that's not an alien on a show would be Chloe Sullivan on Smallville.

I knew it!

It's all about Abed (from Community).

Hank Hill from the recently-ended animated sitcom King of the Hill. An odd choice, but all the elements are there; narrow interests ( propane, tools, trucks, etc. ), rigid thinking, lack of social skill ( not incompetent in social situations, but often called dull by other characters ), and extremely uptight and adverse to change. And despite being married and having a kid, he's so chaste and adverse to even talking about sex that he may well be asexual, another trait shown be several people on the spectrum.

Lots of White Christian American men are interested in tools and trucks (and sports), have rigid thinking, and are uptight and adverse to change. An interest isn't seen as "Aspie-ish" if it's socially acceptable for one's gender, age group, and socioeconomic status.

As for Hank's inability to discuss sexual matters, that's probably because, well, again, he's a typical uptight Christian middle-aged Republican. I mean no offense, but that's how the stereotype goes. They believe that sex should be a strictly private matter. Nothing Aspie about that. In addition, maybe he finds sex exhausting, or even painful, because of his narrow urethra.

In my opinion, Bobby might be an Aspie, but not Hank. He's about as NT as they come.

Sheldon, Leonard, Howard and Rajesh (?) on The Big bang theory.

me=Captain Obvious.

Sheldon in particular.

Sheldon: Penny, that's where I sit.
Penny: So? Sit next to me.
Sheldon: ...No, I sit there.

Also L Lawliet (the world's greatest detective) and Near from Death Note. Near is twelve, plays with robot action figurines, and works for the CIA. And L...

Light Yagami: Why are you sitting like that?
L: (continues squatting on his chair) If I sat normaly, my reasoning and deductive skills would drop by 40%.

I know this is more real people, rather than characters, but Jamie Hyneman and Grant Imahara from Mythbusters.

Yeah.

Also the new Sherlock Holmes from the mini series. I would have to watch it again but he said something about being different.
Also if you havent seen them go and get them they are awesome.

Kyle Lightman from Lie to me.

I don't know about Sherlock Holmes. I've been reading the books, and he seems to have enough aspie traits to be in the maybe category. Some things don't seem quite right to me to be aspie. But then again, it is written by an NT, before anyone knew anything about either autism or Asperger's.

Different, yes... but not an aspie:

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/10/2...n-freeman/

Vampslord - You talking about 'Sherlock', the series on BBC where it's set in Modern Times? I'd have to agree with you there. I've just been watching it, and it's pretty good. I definitely agree that this Sherlock has Aspie-ness to the T. Poor Watson (smirks)
Anyone think maybe Arthur Conan DOyle 'had' Aspergers or knew someone like us and just based Holmes off of that? I mean, author's always put a bit of themselves into their work, so the question is if Conan Doyle considered himself a 'John Watson' or a 'Sherlock Holmes'.
Although I hope no one like Autism SPeaks actually does say the new Sherlock character on the show has Asperger's, since everyone whose watched it have heard him say to Mrs. Hudson 'I'm a sociopath', since no matter what, people are as effected by a fictional representation of things as they are factual. (I give you Rain Man for the best example, and the few TV shows that have had autistic characters on them).
Hey anyone seen Sanctuary, with Amanda Tapping? One of the episodes had a kid who was 'diagnosed' with Asperger's Syndrome, though I have to question if they researched it correctly, or if they did what a lot of people do and lump autism into one big ball of crying, whimpering people. (I hate stereotypes, in case anyone's not been able to notice - SARCASM).

My feeling about Arthur Conan Doyle, if we all agree that the original Holmes was aspie, is that he probably knew someone like that. Holmes seems to me more like what NTs see aspies as.

I don't believe that the original character of Sherlock Holmes is an aspie. I think he is just an extremely logical, observant NT. He is reserved, but that was standard social expectation for the men of that time period. However, he is definitely abnormal.

I don't think he was NT. Like I said, I'm not sure about aspie, but I don't think he was NT. Also, he was outside the standard social expectation, including being less reserved. At any rate, I think we can agree that he was abnormal.

This post was last modified: 12-12-2010 08:26 PM by d_olson27.