Are there any Autists in video games?

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Do you know of any examples?

The only one I could name is Kaidan Alenko in Mass Effect. No, nobody ever says that he's autistic, but some of his comments match Asperger's, if you ask me. He says stuff like "too many lights, too many colours" when you take him into a nightclub, and he mentions that he finds fountains "soothing". He's also a pretty calm, soft-spoken guy.

Oh, no, actually I CAN think of another example, and this one is ALSO in Mass Effect and, most importantly, confirmed. I think of David Whatshisname in the DLC Overlord (which, as a funny coincidence, sounds quite a lot like "Overload"). He's clearly autistic, which makes it even worse that he's part of an experiment that has his eyes being open all the time and his ears having to listen to the "voices" of a million robot programs without any way to escape.

The only one that comes to mind is Link, and even then I don't believe it. It was just some half arsed theory I read once about possible reasons why Link doesn't talk.

Sam from "Sam and Max".

The scene where he's talking to his shrink.

Sam: I see... a painting
Max: Maybe it means you're autistic!
Shrink: Hm... well it could be a form of post-modern autism.

Oh, no, actually I CAN think of another example, and this one is ALSO in Mass Effect and, most importantly, confirmed. I think of David Whatshisname in the DLC Overlord (which, as a funny coincidence, sounds quite a lot like "Overload")...[/quote]It is specifically said that he is autistic.

Gordon Freeman (of Half Life fame) is a theoretical physicist who never talks.

Miles "Tails" Prower. He is too obsessed with machines, his genius with them is comparable to Eggman's and, most important of all, he follows Sonic everywhere. Everybody knows that autistics love Sonic.

In fact, the obsession of people on the spectrum with Sonic is enough to qualify Eggman, Metal Sonic and Amy Rose as autistics, too. They are all obsessed with Sonic.

David Archer is the only confirmed autistic character in Mass Effect Trilogy and that was in Mass Effect 2 and was in the DLC "Overlord". Amy in the video game "Amy" is an autistic 8 yr old girl.

I think the recent Borderlands 2 mentioned that a character called Patricia Tannis has Asperger's tendencies, although some of her craziness is beyond that. This is a character who has such a great fear of social interaction that will do things like tie dead animals to the front of her house, has suffered a major nosebleed out of the stress of being in a conversation, and mentioned suprise at having only a mild reaction to be called pretty being only a few hours of "dry heaving", and surprise that she did not have a problem with a conversation, and said conversation was a pretty simple back and forward.

And then there is some attachment she has had with inanimate objects, although that is mostly her crazy.

Maybe not Autistic, but Merril from Dragon Age 2 definitely have some Aspergers. She always says she's making a mess out of conversations, she always answers to rhetorical questions, she's so naive and she always takes things literally.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVPUitq12GA

Other quotes:

"Being First to the Keeper. I was always... a bit secluded. I studied magic and history while the others were learning the Vir Tanadhal. It's good that I left. I'd have made a terrible keeper. I was never that good with people."