List of fictional characters on the autistic spectrum

Fictional characters described by the authors as being on the autistic spectrum:

• Albinofrom The Technopriests by Alejandro Jodorowskyand Zoran Janjetov
• Lou Arrendale and his associates from The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon.
• Caleb Applewhite from Desperate Housewives
• Raymond Babbittfrom the film Rain Man played by Dustin Hoffman
• Christopher in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
• Kazan from Cube
• Simon Lynch from Mercury Rising.
• Dr. Kio Masada from C. S. Friedman's This Alien Shore is an autistic savantwith 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 Wizardsseries. His autism gives him an unusual perspective of the world that in turn gives him unique abilities as a wizard.
• Lily Montgomery from All My Children.
• Ellen Ripleyfrom Alien: Resurrection, described as "emotionally autistic" after her resurrection.
• Cody from the film Bless the Child.

See also

• List of autistic people
• People speculated to have been autistic
• Autistic savant
• Autism
• Asperger's Syndrome

External link

• Famous people on the autistic spectrum (fictional, historical, and present)

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