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20 Dec 2012, 4:41 pm

Darn, I forgot his real name, but I think Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory has AS. HILARIOUS character!



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21 Dec 2012, 9:22 am

John Nash was remarkable the way he just kept going through and ignoring his delusions. Granted the movie version was far more severe than the real one (who, incidentally, seems to have been gay or at least bisexual.)



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21 Dec 2012, 3:43 pm

TV Tropes has a few articles about fictional characters who may be autistic.



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26 Dec 2012, 12:08 am

How about Kevin from Home Alone? Actually, Macaulay Culkin plays a lot of aspie roles, such as the kid from Pagemaster or the kid from The Good Son.



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26 Dec 2012, 12:11 am

The Net - Sandra Bullock's character, Angela Bennett


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26 Dec 2012, 12:25 am

Max from "Mary and Max" although animated its a great film


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08 Jan 2013, 1:32 am

I think the character Dr. Manhattan from the Watchmen is maybe an archtypal depiction of AS.



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08 Jan 2013, 2:38 am

MisterSpock wrote:

I believe Adam is a film about a guy with AS, the boy in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is described as an aspie, Spock is a Vulcan, and John Nash is a paranoid Schizophrenic (probably with autism). In other cases, I think writers write these characters without knowing their 'label'/'condition'.

And Edward Scissorhands was constructed by Vincent Price and left alone for years, so no normality there which he could have learned, NT or otherwise. I think Grissom from CSI is a possible aspie, as is Amelie, Robert Langden, and Larry David's portrayal of himself in Curb Your Enthusiasm.


Larry David's character is not an aspie imo, because he is extremely cunning in his interactions with others. It's just that he doesn't follow the rules of society. He has his own rules of what he thinks are right (that is when he is not being plainly selfish). For any person who knows the show well, the following will make sense: in an interview, LD was asked what was the show about. He replied that it was about geting the thoughts that everyone has but doesn't want to admit they have to be exteriorised. So it doesn't really have anything to do with AS.



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08 Jan 2013, 4:28 am

The driver in Drive.
Bartleby in Bartleby.
Replicants Roy Batty, Pris, Zhora, Leon, and Rachel in Blade Runner.
Robert E. Howard (who probably really was in real life) in The Whole Wide World.
Just to name a few.

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17 Jan 2013, 12:48 pm

Rocky Balboa and Rambo?

Main characters from "The mirror has two faces"



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17 Jan 2013, 10:29 pm

gadge wrote:
Max from "Mary and Max" although animated its a great film


"although animated" There is no "although animated", animation does not affect a film's quality.


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20 Jul 2013, 4:34 pm

Ganondox wrote:
gadge wrote:
Max from "Mary and Max" although animated its a great film


"although animated" There is no "although animated", animation does not affect a film's quality.


No but it does affect taste - perhaps the original poster of the comment doesn't like animated films.



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20 Jul 2013, 6:49 pm

Ben from the flemish film "Ben X", story of a boy who get badly bullied at school. From 2009 I think, based on a true story, in flemish(dutch) with subtitles.

Malcom from the film of he same name (1986), Australian comedy about a "slow witted" young man with a genius for mechanical devices. This is before aspergers syndrome was defined, but he is a classic aspie and this is a brilliant film. Malcom gets fired from the Tramways board because he makes his own personal tram and goes for a tour on it around Melbourne. To get money after then he helps a crook to do robberies by making mechanical devices to do the job.

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25 Jul 2013, 2:38 am

John Munch from Law and Order SVU and Homicide: Life in the Streets.



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25 Jul 2013, 7:02 pm

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John Munch from Law and Order SVU and Homicide: Life in the Streets.


Hmm.... what makes you think that? If any character from Law and Order comes to mind when thinking of autism, for me, it would have to be Det. Robert Goren from Criminal Intent. The way he always noticed details at scenes and in people that no one else did, his habit of drifting of in thought when he had an idea. I thought it was interesting how he would often leave Eames to do most of the talking when interviewing witnesses, and he would drift off, looking at some seemingly minor detail of the crime scene.



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25 Jul 2013, 10:14 pm

SheldonGC wrote:
Meistersinger wrote:
John Munch from Law and Order SVU and Homicide: Life in the Streets.


Hmm.... what makes you think that? If any character from Law and Order comes to mind when thinking of autism, for me, it would have to be Det. Robert Goren from Criminal Intent. The way he always noticed details at scenes and in people that no one else did, his habit of drifting of in thought when he had an idea. I thought it was interesting how he would often leave Eames to do most of the talking when interviewing witnesses, and he would drift off, looking at some seemingly minor detail of the crime scene.


Considering how much of a sarcastic know-it-all he can be at times. He always seems to playing one-upsmanship with his coworkser, and irritating them, as well as his captain, to no end, whether he was in Bawlmore (aka Charm City, hon), or Noo Yawhk.