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 syndrome. It is not intended to include speculation. [edit] Literature - 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 syndrome in hindsight; her dealings with John having occurred in the 60s.
- Simon Lynch in Ryne Douglas Pearson's Simple Simon is a 16-year-old autistic boy whose mathematical abilities enable him to break a NSA security code and as a result must be protected from the government.[3][4]
- 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.
- Cornelius Taine from Stephen Baxter's Manifold: Time. A brilliant eschatologist mathematician who seeks the meaning of life. "Blue kids" from the same book also tend fall in the same category.
- Arnie O'Connor from Dean Koontz's Frankenstein trilogy. Main character Carson O'Connor's autistic brother, unnaturally cognizant of the events of the books and the object of fellow autistic, albeit synthetic, character Randall Six's obsession to understand the secret of happiness.
- Bonnie Mendoza from J. Matthew Neal's Specific Gravity (2007) and Ontario Lacus (2008) is a deaf synesthete scientist with an autism spectrum disorder felt to be Asperger's syndrome. Bonnie has vast mathematical and lexical abilities but is significantly impaired in many activities of daily living (telling left from right, direction sense, managing money, arranging clothing), and relies on the help of friends and family to project an air of "normalcy." A skilled magician and mentalist, she uses these abilities to fight crime by solving mathematical/word puzzles and cracking passwords. She briefly gains lethal extrasensory abilities after being injected with alien DNA found on the moon Titan in Ontario Lacus.
Key or central characters: - Cho-won (played by Jo Seung-woo) from the film Marathon
- Zen (played by Yanin Vismistananda) from the film Chocolate.
- Ben (played by Greg Timmermans) from the film Ben X.
- Nell Kellty (played by Jodie Foster) from the film Nell. A character testifies that Nell has Asperger syndrome.
[edit] Television - 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)".
- 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 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 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 syndrome. Much of the focus of the episode involves the impact of his condition on his family and their lives together.
- The third series of Skins features the character JJ Jones who is diagnosed with Asperger syndrome.
- On a Season 4 episode of Quincy, M.E., Quincy helps an autistic child named Timmy Carson (played by [18] David Hollander]) get into a specialist program and convinces Timmy's parents not to institutionalize the child.[19]
- The ER season 13 episode "Heart of the Matter" featured a young female patient with Asperger syndrome.[20]
- 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.
- On Australian soap opera Home and Away, three autistic recurring characters have appeared; Nico Pappas (played by Nicholas Papademetriou) between 1988 and 1989, Mikey Dunn (played by Trent Atkinson) between 2002 and 2003, and Brendan Austin (played by Kain O'Keefe) in 2009
- The Grey's Anatomy season 5 episode "These Ties That Bind", included a visiting heart surgeon with Asperger syndrome who was very good at surgery but had difficulties relating to the staff and the patients. She initially chose not to stay after realizing she had been manipulated by other members of the staff, but after a second visit changed her mind.[21]
- On the British drama Grange Hill, Martin Miller had Asperger syndrome.
- In the Syfy series Eureka, Allison Blake's son Kevin is severely autistic.
- Abed in the NBC sitcom Community has Asperger syndrome.
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