List of fictional characters on the autism spectrum

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.

Literature

• Christopher Boone, the central character of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

• Lou Arrendale and his associates from Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon.

• Seth Garin in Stephen King's The Regulators is an 8-year-old boy with autism and mental powers that can be used for good or evil.

• 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.

• Max Parkman in Antoinette van Heugten's Saving Max is a teenager with Asperger Syndrome who is accused of murdering a patient at a mental hospital.

• Bill Tyree in Nicholas Sparks's Dear John is the father of John Tyree. Savannah Curtis, a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying special education, suggests to John that his father may have Asperger Syndrome.

• Alan Wheddon in Nicholas Sparks's Dear John is the autistic brother of Savannah Curtis' childhood friend and husband Tim Wheddon.

• In "Evidence Suggesting the Existence of Asperger Syndrome in the Mid-1800s" by Ashley Kern Koegel from the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, she says that the idiosyncratic behavior exhibited by the titular character in Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener shows that the character could be classified as having Asperger syndrome, though the story was written nearly a century before ASD was formally recognized.

• Morgan Wiberg in Camilla Läckberg's crime novel The Stone Cutter is a boy with Asperger's syndrome. He is fascinated by blood and death. When the neighbouring girl is found murdered Morgan feels relieved because she disturbed his routines. He regrets that he can not be present at her autopsy.

Film

Key or central characters:

• Raymond "Ray" Babbitt (played by Dustin Hoffman) from the film Rain Man.

• Daniel Connelly (played by Harry Connick, Jr.) from the film P.S. I Love You.

• Simon Lynch (played by Miko Hughes) from the film Mercury Rising.

Television

• Laurence Burrell was an autistic teenager who appeared as a one-off character on A Touch of Frost.

• Dr. Bob Melnikov, Ukrainian actor Dmitry Chepovetsky's character on ReGenesis, has Asperger's syndrome, and he discusses it in episodes 1, 11, and 17.

• On Law and Order: Criminal Intent, the episode "Probability" features a corrupt insurance fraud expert named Wally Stevens (played by Mark Linn-Baker) who has Asperger syndrome and is eventually betrayed by his own tics and behaviors.^{[citation needed]}

• In the House episode "Lines in the Sand", 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 did have Asperger's syndrome so that he would have an excuse for his rudeness and dislike of people.^{[citation needed]}

• Karla Bentham - Waterloo Road (Series 3 - Series 5). Troubled teenage girl with Asperger's Syndrome. Karla had been excluded from 3 Secondary Schools previously and Waterloo Road was her last chance.^{[citation needed]}

• 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.

• The Grey's Anatomy season 5 episode "These Ties That Bind," included a visiting heart surgeon with Asperger's 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.^{[citation needed]}

• According to executive producer Dean Devlin, Parker (played by Beth Riesgraf) from the television show Leverage has a mild case of Asperger's.

• Dr. Spencer Reid on Criminal Minds. An unsub in "Broken Mirror" (Season 1, Episode 5) noted Dr. Reid's "autistic tendencies" and Matthew Gray Gubler stated in an interview in the show's second season "[Reid]'s an eccentric genius, with hints of schizophrenia and minor autism, Asperger's Syndrome. Reid is 24, 25 years old with three PH.D.s and one can't usually achieve that without some form of autism."

• Tommy Westphall, Dr. Westphall's son on "St. Elsewhere," was autistic and figured into many different storylines throughout the life of the series. Tommy's autism was critical to the season finale, which raised the possibility that the entire show existed only in his imagination while staring at a snow globe.

• The attorney Jerry Espenson in Boston Legal is diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome in his third appearance. His condition remained a central aspect of many storylines.

• The series Alphas includes Gary Bell, a man with an autism diagnosis played by Ryan Cartwright.

• Dr Gabrielle Jacobs from New Zealand's Shortland Street is a surgeon with Asperger's Syndrome.

• In the television series Fringe, the character Astrid Farnsworth has Asperger's Syndrome in the alternate universe. Actor Jasika Nicole has said that her sister, who also has Asperger's Syndrome, inspired her portrayal of Astrid's doppelganger.

• Sherlock Holmes [edwin cumberback] is revield to have asbegers in "the hounds of the baskavils" the show sherlock in which he is the main charicter and absessed with solving murrders and other symtoms through out.

Comics

• Legion (Marvel Comics)
• The boy who would become the DC Comics supervillain Black Manta was autistic.
• Jonny Do in Psi-Force was an autistic individual with pyrokinetic abilities.

See also

• List of people on the autism spectrum
• People speculated to have been autistic