List of fictional characters on the autistic spectrum
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Fictional characters identified by the authors as having conditions on the autism spectrum. This article includes 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.
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[edit] Literature
- Lou Arrendale and his associates from The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon. [2]
- Christopher John Francis Boone in the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. [3]
- John Cosway in Barbara Vine's "The Minotaur". Diagnosed by the family physician as having 'childhood schizophrenia', the Swedish assistant employed to supervise John, makes a diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome in hindsight; her dealings with John having occurred in the 60s.
- Hans (the author did not give him a last name) is an 18 year old boy with Autism in the short story Understanding Her Fear about a 15 year old girl named Tanja Koch who lives in Essen, Germany after being raped by an Autistic boy in the United States. Hans appears in the story and tries to get Tanja to like him, but does not understand why she fears Autism. He gets arrested when she calls the police when he arrives at her apartment late at night because he does not understand how another person would see such an action as strange.
- 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 (played by Dustin Hoffman) from the film Rain Man [4][5].
- Jamie Benjamin (played by Sammy Snyders) from the film The Pit. [6]
- Linda Freeman (played by Sigourney Weaver) from the film Snow Cake [7]
- Eric Gibb (played by Jay Underwood) from the film The Boy Who Could Fly [8]
- Kazan (played by Andrew Miller) from the film Cube [9][10]. Kazan is autistic.
- Simon Lynch (played by Miko Hughes) from the film Mercury Rising [11].
- Donald Morton (Josh Hartnett) and Isabelle Sorenson (Radha Mitchell) in the film Mozart and the Whale. [12]
- Cody O'Connor (played by Holliston Coleman) from the film Bless the Child [13].
- Zen (played by Yanin Vismistananda) from the film Chocolate.
[edit] Television
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- Tommy Westphall (played by Chad Allen) is a recurring character on St. Elsewhere. Tommy is the teenage son of chief of medicine Donald Westphall. A scene in the series' final episode implies the entire series had taken place in Tommy's mind (and by extension other series connected to St. Elsewhere through cross-overs, shared characters, shared places or shared events also occur in Tommy's mind, forming the Tommy Westphall Universe).
- Brady Hauser, Mark Hauser's brother, is an autistic savant who is enlisted by his brother to steal corporate security information in the 24 episode "8:00PM-9:00PM (24 season 6)".
- Laurence Burrell was an autistic teenager appearing as a one off character on A Touch of Frost [14]
- Dr. Bob Melnikov (played by Ukrainian actor Dmitry Chepovetsky) on ReGenesis has Asperger's and discusses it in episodes 1, 11 [15], and 17.
- On Law and Order: Criminal Intent, the episode "Probability" [16] features a corrupt 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 the House episode "Lines in the Sand" [17], which focuses on an autistic child named Adam, the team suspects that House may have low-level Asperger's 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.
- 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]
- The ER season 13 episode "Heart of the Matter" featured a young female patient with Asperger's syndrome.[2]
- In Scrubs, Dr. Perry Cox diagnosed his friend Ron's son Nathan with autism in the episode "My Roommates".
- On The Shield, Vic Mackey's son Matthew and daughter Megan both have been diagnosed with autism.
- The Without a Trace episode Volcano featured an autistic boy who disappeared in New York City.
- On a Season 4 episode of Cold Case, "Saving Sammy", investigation into the three-year-old murder of an autistic teen's parents is reopened.
- In Series 3 of UK Drama series, Waterloo Road, new pupil Karla Bentham has Asperger's syndrome.[citation needed]
- On Australian soap opera Home and Away, Mikey Dunn, an autistic teenage (played by Trent Atkinson appeared recurrently between 2002 and 2003.
[edit] Comics
- Legion (Marvel Comics) [18]
- The boy who would become the DC Comics supervillain Black Manta was autistic.[3]
- Jonny Do in Psi-Force was an autistic individual with pyrokinetic abilities.[4]
- The Japanese manga With the Light is about a mother raising her autistic son.
