Check out this new character, Yuki, in Casualty. He's one of a batch of new
junior doctors and from the outset, he appeared different to the others. He was
awkward about speaking and it was commented upon by someone. He had that distant
"look". He reminded me of myself 20+ years ago, though I studied in the arts, not
medicine. When he did speak, to his unattainable colleague, May, it was in the
sort of really over-the-head mnemonics that would suppress any overt expression
of attraction, probably with the genuine intention of nurturing that attraction within the safe sandbox of mutual intellectual respect. Unfortunately, he didn't even know that he was speaking over her head.
I looked him up on BBC to see if autism/Asperger's was mentioned. It isn't, though it does say that he suffers from "social anxiety" and decribes him as "nervy, clumsy, brilliantly clever, painfully shy, loyal".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/casualty/characters/yuki.shtml
Any thoughts?