List of fictional characters on the autistic spectrum

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Fictional characters described by the authors as having conditions on the autistic spectrum. This article is intended to include only fictional characters explicitly described in the work or otherwise by the author as being autistic or having Asperger's. It is not intended to include speculation.

1 Literature
2 Film
3 Television
4 Comics
5 See also
6 External link

[edit] Literature

Lou Arrendale and his associates from The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon. [1]
Christopher John Francis Boone in the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. [2]
Dr. Kio Masada from C. S. Friedman's This Alien Shore is an autistic savant with a talent for computer science. The book also mentions his deceased wife, a musically gifted autistic savant, and includes Masada's musings on the nature of their relationship. Within the text, members of their culture refer to them as iru, but Friedman has confirmed that this term is meant to be analogous to autism.
Darryl McAllister from A Wizard Alone, part of Diane Duane's Young Wizards series. His autism gives him an unusual perspective of the world that in turn gives him unique abilities as a wizard.
Manfred Steiner in Philip K Dick's Martian Time-Slip. Outwardly a severely autistic child, Manfred in fact operates on a different time-scale to the rest of humanity.

[edit] Film

Key or central characters:

Raymond Babbitt from the film Rain Man [3] played by Dustin Hoffman [4].
Simon Lynch from the film Mercury Rising [5].
Cody from the film Bless the Child [6].
Linda Freeman from the film Snow Cake. [7]
Eric Gibb from the film The Boy Who Could Fly.
Jordan from the film Real Genius.
Toby Radlett in American Splendor.
Kazan from the film Cube [8] played by Andrew Miller [9]. Kazan is autistic and appears to be an autistic savant.
Donald Morton and Isabellte Sorenson in the film Mozart and the Whale. [10]
Sammy Snyders portrays Jamie Benjamin, an autistic boy in the film The Pit. [11]
In Puff the Magic Dragon, Jackie Paper, a depressed little boy who meets the dragon, has autism.

[edit] Television

Brady Hauser (Mark Hauser's brother), played by actor Scott Michael Campbell in the 8:00PM-9:00PM (24 season 6); is an autistic savant who is enlisted by his brother to steal corporate security information.
Lily Montgomery (Jackson Montgomery's daughter) on the television show All My Children [12].
Laurence Burrell was an autistic teenager appearing as a one off character on A Touch of Frost [13]
Dr. Bob Melnikov on ReGenesis has Asperger's and discusses it in episodes 1, 11 [14], and 17.
On Law and Order: Criminal Intent, the episode "Probability"[15] features an insurance fraud expert named Wally Stevens (played by Mark Linn-Baker) who has Asperger's Syndrome and is eventually betrayed by his own tics and behaviors.
In House episode "Lines in the Sand"[16] which focuses on an autistic child, the team suspects that House may have low-level Asperger Syndrome in order to explain his unwavering protests at having the carpet in his office changed. Dr. Wilson, however, asserts that House "wishes" he had Asperger's syndrome so that he would have an excuse for his rudeness and dislike of people.
On The Closer in the first season episode "You Are Here", the son of the murder victim has Asperger's Syndrome. Much of the focus of the episode involves the impact of his condition on his family and their lives together.
On Boston Legal, recurring character Jerry Espenson is diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome during a second-season plot arc that exposes the trait during his trial for assaulting Shirley Schmidt. The revelation is made during the episode "Helping Hands" and is referenced in later episodes.
In The Jetsons, Elroy Jetson could have Asperger's Syndrome.
On a Season 4 episode of Quincy, M.E., Quincy helps an autistic child named Timmy Carson (played by David Hollander) get into a specialist program and convinces Timmy's parents not to institutionalize the child. ^[1]
An episode of ER featured a young female patient with Asperger's Syndrome. ^[2]
In Scrubs, Dr. Cox diagnosed his friend's son with autism in the episode "My Roommates".
In The Simpsons, Homer, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as non-Simpson characters Comic Book Guy, Dr. Frink, Martin Prince and Ralph Wiggim could have forms of autism or Asperger's Syndrome.

[edit] Comics

Legion (Marvel Comics) [17]
The DC Comics supervillain Black Manta: According to Aquaman vol. 4, #6, the boy who would become Black Manta was an autistic youth.
Jonny Do in Psi-Force was a severely autistic young paranormal with pyrokinetic abilities.^[3]
The character Seth in the comic strip Clear Blue Water has been diagnosed with autism.