Autism mentioned on CSI

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This episode is on Spike TV right now. Grissom does not have a beard.
Stokes mentioned that the subject was acting guilty.
Grissom said "I think he's autistic. High Functioning Right Brained."
Stokes: "Like you?"
Gris has struck me as HFA or Aspie for a while now.

Aaron Pratt is the subject's name, and they just referred to him as a surveillance system. They now have to figure out how to get the film out of his head.

I'm watching it right now. The autie isn't a suspect is he? They are in his house searhcing and asking him questions.

I don't think they've called him a suspect, but they appear to be headed that way.

The episode is called "Caged", for anyone thinking of going to look for it (and it's from series / season 2). I found it a bit uncomfortable watching aspects of my personality in the character of Aaron, but it's a good episode.
Grissom appears to actually know something about HFA, and is quick to correct misconceptions about autistic people from his colleague.
I've had my suspicions about Grissom, too...

Last edited by aetherlost on 23 Jan 2007, 8:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.

For those who wish to see for themselves, I'll keep the ending to myself.

In "CSI: Companion," CSI writer Elizabeth Devine revealed that she has an autistic son. Because of that, she knew what autistics were really like and didn't want Aaron Pratt to be a stereotype. Michael Goorjian (most famously of Fox's "Party Of Five") was the only actor she auditioned who didn't give a Rain Man-type read, so he got the part.

I watched that episode this week, but I'm not sure I totally relate to the guy. I do pride myself sometimes on my knowledge of useless trivia, and my co-workers sometimes turn to me to answer trivia questions, but I'm a total slob. In fact, I sometimes try to discourage people from seeing my apartment because it's so cluttered. But they never said he had Asperger's, they just said he had HFA, so his case is probably just a more extreme (not sure if that's the appropriate word) version of mine. Anybody know whether William Peterson was interviewed about that episode?

I also think Grissom may be autistic, and Sara too... her main hobbie was, until recently, watching the police scanner...

Oh yes, Sara is very likely to be an aspie. Look at her biography:

Backstory:

Sara Sidle was born and raised an hour and half outside San Francisco on Tamales Bay. A child of ex-hippies running a bed and breakfast, Sara always needed a bigger stage. Everything about her as a child was outsized: her intelligence, her energy, her curiosity. Sara was pretty much all-or-nothing in high school, and as talented as she was, grace didn’t come with the package. The other kids resented her, and she did nothing to ease the resentment. However, a shocking incident ended her childhood instantly: after years of abuse, her mother killed her father. Sara was subsequently placed in foster care.

At eighteen, Sara found a place where she could be at home. She went to Harvard and enjoyed four of the best years of her life. She took as many classes as she could. She went to as many parties as she could. And she finally dated. Not well, but at least she tried. She attended graduate school in theoretical physics before realizing that she was too frenetic for a life of scholarly contemplation. One year later, she got a job in the San Francisco coroner’s office and spent five years there gaining an unofficial education in forensic science. After that, she transferred to the San Francisco crime lab before being contacted by Grissom, who asked her to come to Las Vegas.

Like any tragic figure worth her salt, Sara has a single flaw: people. She can solve any problem except the problem of other people and how she’s supposed to relate to them. As a result, she hides in her job. She pursues her career rigorously, perhaps more so than any of the other CSIs, partly because she’s afraid of what she’d find out about herself if she ever slowed down. Fortunately, Sara finally confronted her fears of intimacy when she moved forward into a romantic relationship with Gil Grissom.

What do you think?

I actually believe both Grissom and Sara are both Aspies unless one or the other did something that would prove otherwise.

The second I saw the title this topic, I was all "Oh great, first CSI bashes furries and NOW they're bashing Aspies?".

I absolutely think Grissom and Sara are aspies. Actually when I started undergrad I was a forensic science major, this changed but forensic science is still a big special interest. I told myself I would be a CSI just like Sara Sidle. She was my tv idle for a long time. I'll have to watch "Caged" again. I own all the seasons up to season six so I should have it.

They once did one on adult babies. It was called King Baby. They didn't really bash it but even the AB/DLs didn't like how they portrayed the fetish/lifestyle/hobby/comfort/kink whatever they want to call it.

cool ill be sure to watch it when i get a chance