Is Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes an aspie?

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17 Dec 2009, 6:33 pm

I really think so. He has all the tools for it. He has no friends but his imaginary tiger, Hobbes, he is fixated on dinos, can't concentrate in school, is bullied by his biggest classmate, always fails by playing baseball and drives his parents mad. I'm quite sure he has Asperger's :D



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17 Dec 2009, 7:01 pm

I never thought about that! That could very well be the case!



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17 Dec 2009, 7:28 pm

If we follow the old (pre-DSM-IV) definitions, I think he was a very tipical case of "schizoid disorder of childhood and adolescence" (solitary and living in fantasy); for modern standards, I bet more in Inattentive ADHD - their interests are strange, but are not particulary restricted.



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17 Dec 2009, 7:34 pm

More likely highly gifted with discalculia.


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17 Dec 2009, 7:35 pm

I always thought Calvin was a sociopath in the making.



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17 Dec 2009, 8:00 pm

well your wrong, he doesn't. Also the tiger was not imaginary, the tiger was in fact the embodiment of realality


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17 Dec 2009, 10:24 pm

I'd hazzard a guess at Aspies and ADHD.

And I think Eggman's right...



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18 Dec 2009, 2:48 am

The transmogriphier is clearly a real, functioning machine. Ergo, I conclude schizoid disorder rather than ASD.


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18 Dec 2009, 4:06 am

:D



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18 Dec 2009, 7:47 am

I'd lean towards ADHD...


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18 Dec 2009, 3:02 pm

Calvin is probably one of the last people I'd suspect as being Aspie.


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19 Dec 2009, 1:34 am

He's ink on paper.



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19 Dec 2009, 5:50 pm

Yep, he's an aspie. :D


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20 Dec 2009, 6:46 am

Odin wrote:
Yep, he's an aspie. :D


Actually no he isnt


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20 Dec 2009, 6:55 am

Asperger syndrome didn't make it into the public eye until the mid-90s, by which time the Calvin character was already fully-developed and in fact Watterson was making the last strips (the last one came at the end of 1995). Many people can relate to Calvin when recalling their youth and I think that helped the strip become as popular as it was. Based on his classroom experiences he might be a candidate for ADHD, but I don't see any case for AS.