This is a list of fictional characters that have been explicitly described within the work in which they appear, or otherwise by the author, as being on the autism spectrum. It is not intended to include speculation. Autistic people involved in the work may be mentioned in footnotes.
Year | Character | Series/Franchise | Author/Publisher | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1961 | Reed Richards | Fantastic Four | Marvel Comics | [1] |
1966 | Poison Ivy (as written by Tee Franklin) [a] | Harley Quinn | DC Comics | [3] |
1967 | Black Manta | Aquaman | [4] [5] | |
1986 | Johnny Do | Psi-Force | Marvel Comics | [6] [7] |
2000 | Hikaru Azuma | With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child | Keiko Tobe | [8] |
2007 | Zone | Special Forces | Kyle Baker | [9] |
2014 | Stephanie "Stephie" Bondu | Assigned Male | Sophie Labelle [b] | [11] |
2015 | Mark Shiffron | Postal | Top Cow Productions | [12] |
2016 | Brunhilde "Brun" Khoury | Questionable Content | Jeph Jacques [c] | [14] |
2016 | Emma | Jade Street Protection Services | Black Mask Studios | [15] |
2018 | Norma Khan | Deadendia: The Watcher's Test | Nobrow | [16] |
2019 | Scarlet Saltee | Archie | Archie Comics | [17] |
Year | Character | Actor | Film | Country | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1969 | Amanda | Lorena Kirk | Change of Habit | USA | [18] [19] [20] |
1969 | Philip Ransome | Mark Lester | Run Wild, Run Free | UK | [21] |
1984 | Mario | Xavier Petermann | Mario | Canada (Quebec) | [22] |
1986 | Eric Gibb | Jay Underwood | The Boy Who Could Fly | USA | [23] |
1988 | Raymond "Ray" Babbitt | Dustin Hoffman | Rain Man | USA | [24] [25] |
1990 | Shane Costello | John and Joseph Vizzi | Backstreet Dreams | USA | [26] [27] |
1993 | Randall Eberlin | Jamie Harrold | Family Pictures | USA | [28] [29] |
1993 | Sally Matthews | Asha Menina | House of Cards | USA | [30] [31] |
1994 | Michael Barth | Bradley Pierce | Cries from the Heart | USA | [32] |
1994 | David Goodson | Michael Goorjian and Steve Ivany [d] | David's Mother | USA | [34] |
1994 | Henry | Gary Farmer | Henry & Verlin | Canada | [35] |
Verlin | Keegan MacIntosh | Canada | |||
1994 | Tim Warden | Ben Faulkner | Silent Fall | USA | [36] |
1994 | Gregory White | Keegan MacIntosh | The Innocent | USA | [37] |
1995 | Rosetta Basilio | Megan Follows | Under the Piano | USA | [38] |
1997 | Chuy | Alexander Goodwin | Mimic | USA | [39] |
1997 | Kazan | Andrew Miller | Cube | Canada | [40] |
1998 | Simon Lynch | Miko Hughes | Mercury Rising | USA | [41] |
1998 | Meaghan Robinson | Laura Harling | Nightworld: Lost Souls | USA | [42] |
1998 | Tracy Sinclair | Kulani Hassen | Down in the Delta | USA / Canada | [43] |
1999 | Molly McKay | Elisabeth Shue | Molly | USA | [44] [45] |
2000 | Cody O'Connor | Holliston Coleman | Bless the Child | USA | [46] |
2002 | Chloé | Adèle Haenel | Les Diables | France | [47] |
2003 | Dewa | Dicky Lebrianto | Biola Tak Berdawai | Indonesia | [48] |
2004 | Vernon Jackson | Lucas Black | Killer Diller | USA | [49] [50] |
2004 | Jovana | Jovana Mitic [e] | Midwinter Night's Dream | Serbia | [51] |
2004 | Karl | Blake Pittman | Somersault | Australia | [52] [53] |
2004 | Steven Morgan | Zac Efron | Miracle Run | USA | [54] |
Philip Morgan | Thomas Lewis | USA | |||
2005 | Cho-won | Cho Seung-woo | Marathon | South Korea | [55] |
2005 | Rama Krishna | Jiiva | Raam | India | [56] |
2005 | Donald Morton | Josh Hartnett | Mozart and the Whale | USA | [57] |
Isabelle Sorenson [57] | Radha Mitchell | USA | |||
2006 | Bea | Poppy Rogers | Breaking and Entering | USA | [58] [59] |
2006 | Linda Freeman | Sigourney Weaver | Snow Cake | UK | [60] |
2007 | Ben | Greg Timmermans | Ben X | Belgian-Dutch | [61] |
2007 | Daniel Connelly | Harry Connick Jr. | P.S. I Love You | USA | [62] |
2007 | Anna Woodruff | Nikki Haddad | Imagination | USA | [63] |
Sarah Woodruff | Jessi Haddad | USA | [64] | ||
2008 | Charlie Mollison | Luke Ford | The Black Balloon | Australia | [65] |
Russell | Firass Dirani | Australia | |||
2008 | Poppy | Lizzy Clark [f] | Dustbin Baby | UK | [66] |
2008 | Noah Connelly | Michael Worth | God's Ears | [67] | |
2008 | Sarah | Skye Bennett | Dark Floors | Finland | [68] |
2008 | Zen | Yanin Vismitananda | Chocolate | Thailand | [69] |
2008 | Nelson Hodge | Alvin Keith | If You Could Say It in Words | USA | [70] |
2009 | Charles | Gabriel Gaudreault | Suzie | Canada (Quebec) | [71] |
2009 | Chris | James Lance | City Rats | UK | [72] |
2009 | Yoon Do‑joon | Won-bin | Mother | South Korea | [73] |
2009 | Max Horovitz | Philip Seymour Hoffman [g] | Mary and Max | Australia | [75] [76] |
2009 | Adam Raki | Hugh Dancy | Adam | USA | [76] |
2009 | Martha | Katie Boland | Dancing Trees | Canada | [77] |
2010 | Dafu | Wen Zhang | Ocean Heaven | Hong Kong | [78] |
2010 | Rizwan Khan | Shahrukh Khan | My Name Is Khan | co-production between India, the United Arab Emirates and China. | [79] |
2010 | Mandy | Ashley Rickards | Fly Away | USA | [80] |
2010 | Terry Marshall | Rhett Giles | Quantum Apocalypse | [81] | |
2010 | Tom Taylor | Charlie Tahan | Burning Bright | USA | [82] |
2010 | Alan Wheddon | Braeden Reed and Luke Benward [h] | Dear John | USA | [84] [85] |
2010 | Simon | Bill Skarsgård | Simple Simon | Sweden | [86] |
2011 | Alfred Jones | Ewan McGregor | Salmon Fishing in the Yemen | UK | [87] |
2011 | Dana Minor | Devon Graye | Exodus Fall | USA | [88] |
2011 | Yoav Pomerantz | Michael Hanegbi | Dr. Pomerantz | Israel | [89] |
2011 | Tomer Roshko | Michael Moshonov | Mabul | Israel | [90] |
2011 | Oskar Schell | Thomas Horn | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | USA | [91] |
2011 | Mickey Tussler | Luke Schroder | A Mile in His Shoes | Canada | [92] |
2012 | Jhilmil Chatterjee | Priyanka Chopra | Barfi! | India | [93] |
2012 | Walter Hill | Dexter Darden | Joyful Noise | USA | [94] |
2012 | Luke | Lou Taylor Pucci | The Story of Luke | USA | [95] |
Zack | Seth Green | ||||
2012 | Nick Young | Booboo Stewart | White Frog | USA | [96] |
2013 | Duncan | Chris Marquette | The Odd Way Home | USA | [97] |
2013 | Haridas | Prithviraj Das | Haridas | India | [98] |
2013 | Rafer | Grayson Russell | Season of Miracles | USA | [99] |
2013 | Ricky | Jesus Sanchez-Velez [i] | Stand Clear of the Closing Doors | USA | [100] |
2014 | Nathan | Asa Butterfield | X+Y | UK | [101] |
2014 | Riley Morris | Riley Polanski | Alien Abduction | USA | [102] |
2014 | Doug Davis | Leigh Whannell | Cooties | USA | [103] |
2015 | Adam | Ty Simpkins | Meadowland | USA | [104] |
2015 | Glory Adams | Taylor Richardson | Jack of the Red Hearts | USA | [105] |
2015 | Jane | Louisa Krause | Jane Wants a Boyfriend | USA | [106] |
2016 | Christian Wolff | Ben Affleck | The Accountant | USA | [107] |
2016 | Michael Taylor | David Mazouz | The Darkness | USA | [108] |
2016 | Park Young-hoon | Lee David | Split | South Korea | [109] |
2017 | Mária | Alexandra Borbély | On Body and Soul | Hungary | [110][ better source needed] |
2017 | Billy Cranston | RJ Cyler | Power Rangers | USA | [111] |
2017 | Lilly Blackburn | Lilly Jandreau | The Rider | USA | [112] [113] |
2017 | Christopher | Jacob McCarthy | The Drummer and the Keeper | Ireland | [114] |
2017 | Fang Xaioming | Wenbo Xu | Ming and Ming | [115] | |
2018 | Wendy Welcott | Dakota Fanning | Please Stand By | USA | [116] |
2018 | Rory McKenna | Jacob Tremblay | The Predator | USA | [117] [118] [119] |
2019 | Nitya | Sai Pallavi | Athiran | India | [120] |
2020 | Renee | Madison Bandy [j] | Loop | USA | [122] |
2020 | Oliver | Azhy Robertson | Come Play | USA | |
2020 | Bart Bromley | Tye Sheridan | The Night Clerk | USA | [123] |
2021 | Music Gamble | Maddie Ziegler [k] | Music | USA | [126] |
2021 | Christina | Jordanne Jones | Mildly Different | Ireland | [127] [128] [129] [130] |
2022 | Tereza | Martha Issová | Buko | Czech Rpublic | [131] [132] |
2022 | Lola | Vanessa Burghardt [l] | Cha Cha Real Smooth | USA | [133] |
Year | Character(s) | Book | Author(s) | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1964 | Manfred Steiner | Martian Time-Slip | Philip K. Dick | [134] | |
1996 | Seth Garin | The Regulators | Stephen King | King wrote this novel under the pen name Richard Bachman. | [135] |
1996 | Simon Lynch | Simple Simon | Ryne Douglas Pearson | This book was adapted into the film Mercury Rising (1998). | [136] [137] |
2000 | Marty Zellerbach | The Hades Factor | Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds | [138] | |
2000 | Patrick | Truth or Dare | Celia Rees | [139] [140] | |
2002 | Darryl McAllister | A Wizard Alone | Diane Duane | [141] | |
2002 | Shepherd O'Conner | By the Light of the Moon | Dean Koontz | [142] | |
2003 | Christopher John Francis Boone | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | Although the blurb on the back of the book says that Christopher is on the spectrum, it is not explicitly stated in the story. The book was adapted into a stage play of the same name. | [143] |
2003 | Lou Arrendale and his co-workers | Speed of Dark | Elizabeth Moon | [144] | |
2004 | Ben | Niets was alles wat hij zei ( Nothing Was All He Said) | Nic Balthazar | The book was adapted into the drama film Ben X (2007). | [61] |
2004–2009 | Natalie Flanagan | Al Capone Does My Shirts | Gennifer Choldenko | This character also appears in the sequel Al Capone Shines My Shoes. | [145] [146] |
2005 | Victor Hoppe | The Angel Maker | Stefan Brijs | [147] | |
2005 | Morgan Wiberg | The Stone Cutter | Camilla Läckberg | [148] | |
2005 | Quinn | Different Like Me: My Book of Autism Heroes | Jennifer Elder | [149] [150] | |
2006 | David | Rules | Cynthia Lord | [151] | |
2006 | Alan Wheddon | Dear John | Nicholas Sparks | Adapted into the 2010 film of the same name. | [152] |
Richard Tyree | [153] | ||||
2006 | Taylor | Do-si-Do with Autism | Sarah Stup [m] | [155] | |
2007 | Blackwolf | Soon I Will Be Invincible | Austin Grossman | [156] | |
2007 | Adam, Amelia, and Morgan | Eye Contact | Cammie McGovern | [157] | |
2008 | Jessica Fontaine | The Language of Others | Clare Morrall | [158] [159] | |
2008 | Gillian Grayson | Mass Effect: Ascension | Drew Karpyshyn | [160] | |
2008 | Mickey Tussler | The Legend of Mickey Tussler | Frank Nappi | This book was adapted into the television film A Mile in His Shoes (2011). | [161] |
2008 | Peter Michael "Little Pete" Ellison | Gone | Michael Grant | Character appears in all six "Season One" books, published between 2008 and 2013. | [162] |
2009 | Marcelo Sandoval | Marcelo in the Real World | Francisco X. Stork | [163] | |
2009 | Geert | De Autist en de Postduif | Rodaan Al Galidi | [164] | |
2009 | Aliénor Malèze | The Winter Journey | Amélie Nothomb | Original book in French: Le Voyage d'Hiver. | [165] |
2009 | Ryan Scott | Into the Silence | Sarah Pinborough | Based on the TV series Torchwood. | [166] |
2009–2011 | Malcolm Decter | WWW Trilogy | Robert J. Sawyer | Character appears in all three books, published between 2009 and 2011. | [167] |
2010 | Jacob Hunt | House Rules | Jodi Picoult | [168] | |
2010 | Max Parkman | Saving Max | Antoinette van Heugten | [169] [170] | |
2010 | Caitlin Smith | Mockingbird | Kathryn Erskine | [171] [172] | |
2010 | Dwight Tharp | The Strange Case of Origami Yoda | Tom Angleberger [n] | [174] | |
Harvey Cunningham | [175] | ||||
2010–2017 | Renarin Kholin | The Stormlight Archive | Brandon Sanderson | Character appears in all books, published 2010 to present. | [176] |
2011 | Trueman Bradley | Trueman Bradley - Aspie Detective | Alexei Maxim Russell | [177] | |
2011 | Dr. Tobias Rothman | Death Benefit | Robin Cook | [178] | |
2012 | Anthony Donatelli | Love Anthony | Lisa Genova | [179] | |
2012 | Leah | Leah's Voice | Lori DeMonia | 2014 Temple Grandin literary work of the year recipient. [180] | [181] |
2012 | Ivan Tarasov | Triggers | Robert J. Sawyer | [182] | |
2013 | Don Tillman | The Rosie Project | Graeme Simsion | [183] | |
2013 | Oscar | The Real Boy | Anne Ursu | [184] | |
2013–2017 | Harriet Manners | Geek Girl | Holly Smale [o] | Harriet is never described as autistic in any of the six books, but Smale has retroactively labelled her as such after being diagnosed with autism herself. [185] | [185] |
2014 | Rose Howard | Rain Reign | Ann M. Martin | [186] | |
2014 | Kurt Bacon | Isla and the Happily Ever After | Stephanie Perkins | [187] | |
2014 | Lin YuLong "Jade Dragon" | Michael Vey: Hunt for Jade Dragon | Richard Paul Evans | Deaf, mute, autistic savant who discovers a formula coveted by the evil Elgen. | [188] |
2014-2018 | Astra Ordott | The Gaia Chronicles | Naomi Foyle [p] | [190] | |
2015 | Paul Stephens | Paul and His Beast | Sarah Stup [m] | [191] | |
Tim | |||||
2016 | Tiberius "Ty" Blackthorn | The Dark Artifices | Cassandra Clare | [192] | |
2016 | Denise | On the Edge of Gone | Corinne Duyvis [q] | [193] | |
2017 | Aster Grey | An Unkindness of Ghosts | Rivers Solomon [r] | [195] | |
2017–2018 | Jack Kagen | There's More Than One Way Home | Donna Levin | Character also appears in the sequel, He Could Be Another Bill Gates. | [196] |
2018 | Stella Lane | The Kiss Quotient | Helen Hoang [s] | [198] | |
2019 | Edison "Eddie" Matthews | The Things We Cannot Say | Kelly Rimmer | [199] | |
2019 | Khai Diep | The Bride Test | Helen Hoang [s] | [198] | |
2020 | Elle | The Leap Cycle | Patience Agbabi | [200] | |
Big Ben | |||||
2020 | Vivy Cohen | Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! | Sarah Kapit [t] | [201] | |
2020 | Addie | A Kind of Spark | Elle McNicoll [u] | Adapted into the 2023 TV series of the same name. | [203] |
2020 | Erin | Please Don't Hug Me | Kay Kerr [v] | [204] | |
2020 | Hudson Tillman | The Rosie Result | Graeme Simsion | [205] | |
2021 | Jesse Broadview | Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse | Susan Vaught [w] | [206] | |
2021 | Lara Finkel | The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family | Sarah Kapit [t] | [207] | |
Caroline Finkel | |||||
2021 | Ester Harding | Daughter Of The Deep | Rick Riordan | [208] | |
2021 | Anna Sun | The Heart Principle | Helen Hoang [s] | [209] | |
Eve Brown | Act Your Age, Eve Brown | Talia Hibbert [x] | [210] | ||
Jacob Wayne | |||||
2021 | Zoe Kelly | Social Queue | Kay Kerr [v] | [212] | |
2021 | Charlie Hudson | American Girl | Wendy Walker | Audible original audiobook. | [213] |
2022 | Frankie | Frankie's World | Aoife Dooley [y] | [214] | |
2022 | Hafsah Al-Hadi | The Society for Soulless Girls | When she first appears, Hafsah is visibly stimming. Later in the book, she has to leave a shop because she becomes overwhelmed, due to her brain working differently to most people's. | [ citation needed] | |
2023 | Cassandra Dankworth | The Cassandra Complex | Holly Smale [o] | [215] | |
2023 | Phoebe | Finding Phoebe | Gavin Extence | [216] | |
2023 | Ariana Ruiz | The Luis Ortega Survival Club | Sonora Reyes [z] | [218] |
Year | Character | Play | Playwright | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1955 | Dame Edna Everage | Various stage and television productions | Barry Humphries [ax] | [317] [318] |
1997 | "Spoonface" Steinberg | Spoonface Steinberg | Lee Hall | [319] |
2015 | Adhvik | Chains: Love Stories of Shadows | AK Srikanth | [320] |
2017 | Luke | Mosquitoes | Lucy Kirkwood | [321] |
2019 | Lyle Masterson [ay] | Albireo | Annahis Basmadjian | [322] [323] |
2019 | Laurence | All in a Row | Alex Oates | [324] |
2023 | Various | How to Dance in Ohio | Rebecca Greer Melocik (book & lyrics), Jacob Yandura (music) |
Year | Character | Actor(s) | Video game | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2001 | Charlie Kane's unnamed son | Ian Axness | Twisted Metal Black | [325] [326] | |
2002 | Cassandra Murata | unknown | Rage of the Dragons | Evoga Entertainment's website describes Cassandra as developing "an autistic case". [327] | [327] |
2005 | Jade (The Indigo Child) | n/a; silent | Fahrenheit | [328] | |
2005 | Murky | Tatiana Vesyolkina | Pathologic | Also appears in Pathologic 2 | [329] |
2007 | Dr. Brigid Tenenbaum | Anne Bobby | BioShock | Also appears in BioShock 2, BioShock 2: Minerva's Den, and is referenced in BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea. | [330] [331] |
2007 | Simone Cole | Michelle Specht | Clive Barker's Jericho | [332] | |
2010 | David Archer | Jesse Gervais | Mass Effect 2 | Appears in the downloadable mission "Overlord". Also appears in Mass Effect 3 | [333] |
2011 | River Wyles | n/a; game does not feature voice acting | To the Moon | [334] | |
2012 | Amy | Kriss Logan (grunts) | Amy | [335] [336] | |
2012 | Patricia Tannis | Colleen Clinkenbeard | Borderlands 2 | [337] [338] | |
2014 | Cole | James Norton | Dragon Age: Inquisition | Patrick Weekes confirmed in an interview with BioFan that Cole was heavily inspired by their autistic nephew. [339] | [340] [339] |
2014 | Drake of Blades | Arianna Ratner | The Elder Scrolls Online | [341] | |
2016 | Symmetra | Anjali Bhimani | Overwatch | Referred to as "on the spectrum" in the comic "A Better World" [342] and was also confirmed to be autistic by the comic's writer [343] as well as Overwatch's game director. [344] | [345] [344] |
2016 | Josh Sauchak | Jonathan Dubsky | Watch Dogs 2 | [346] [347] | |
2017 | Rell | Stefan Martello | Warframe | Rebecca Ford has suggested that Rell has autism, whereas Steve Sinclair has stated that Rell has Asperger's syndrome. | [348] [349] |
2017 | Gin Ibushi | n/a; game does not feature voice acting | Your Turn To Die | [350] | |
2019 | Wattson | Justine Huxley | Apex Legends | [351] |
Year | Character | Actor(s) | Franchise | Medium | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2011 | Michael Falk | John Cariani | The Onion | Satirical news, online videos | [352] |
2019 | Ayda Aguefort | Brennan Lee Mulligan | Dimension 20 | Podcast | [353] [354] [355] |
2022 | Twyla Boogeyman | Kayla Cromer ( TV series), [aj] Tangina Stone (singing voice) | Monster High | Toys | [356] [357] |
2023 | Asteria | n/a [az] | Dungeons & Dragons | Tabletop role-playing game | [358] |
Being neuro-divergent myself, being on the autism spectrum, it's always been something that was part of my life—talking and none of my peers understanding what I said.
The wild card in the equation, as if there needed to be one, is Andrew Miller's autistic man.
So, I've gone over Meaghan's file, and I'm really glad you chose to bring her to us. ... We've been quite successful with autistic patients.
Sometimes. He [Karl] talks about her a lot. He's sort of obsessed with his rabbits. He's got Asperger's.
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Nicholas Gray's directorial debut, If you Could Say it in Words, is a feature film about Nelson Hodge, a young African American guy with Asperger's living in Philadelphia.
No, Alan's not retarded, John. He's autistic.
It's just Michael's autism manifesting itself in a new way
"I'm an Aspie," said Tarasov
So yeah. Mandy's probably on the spectrum. As are Billy & Grim. Mandy is the cold, rational way I learned to view the world in order to survive. Billy is the fun and joyous inner-world where I like to spend my time. And Grim is the moral mediator between the two. It's really Id, Ego, and Superego to some degree. I haven't thought about that in a long time, but that was purposeful.
Cause you know, in our version of Mystery Incorporated Fred is slightly on the spectrum.
Ninety-five percent of characters with disabilities are played by actors without those disabilities. So, it is vitally important that the character of Sean is voiced by an 11-year-old autistic boy named George Yionoulis, who did not speak until he was three years old.
Max is voiced by newcomer Israel Thomas-Bruce, a 13-year-old eighth-grader who was diagnosed with ASD when he was 4.
I guess his ASD (Autism spectrum disorder) enables him to be open about his OCD. He doesn't really care what other people think, certainly a lot less than I do.
We don't get to see much of Curtis, but as it turns out, the actor who plays Curtis, Jonathan Simao, does in fact have Asperger's syndrome; so when you are seeing him on screen, you're getting the real deal.
For American and Canadian audiences, Bruno the Brake Car will be voiced by 10-year-old autistic actor Chuck Smith from Toronto.
In her defense, Dame Edna insists she has "mild Asperger's syndrome" and "says the things other people wished they could say" but keep a lid on.
Claiming to suffer from Asperger's, bi-polar, gluten intolerance, restless legs and attention deficit disorder, there might just be a clue to the truth in that list of conditions as to why this is a farewell tour.
Her powers speak to the mind but- ah- she does not know my language. I'm autistic, Chambers. Please keep up.
Being on the spectrum (and played by a fellow on the spectrum) he has things he likes (Laura, his umbrella, quiet, whiskey, his work...) and things he doesn't. (....things that aren't Laura, his umbrella, quiet, whiskey and his work.)
An orphan with an autistic spectrum disorder, she grumbles, mutters avoids eye contact and struggles to express her thoughts.
Mission Briefing: How did an insane introvert with Asperger's manage to survive in Sanctuary
She absolutely is!
...Ayda's just like weeping tears of joy, and she's got a whole stack of books that Jawbone has given for her about autism and about the autism spectrum.
And then I was thinking about my friends that I had modeled Ayda after, it was like oh, those are my autistic friends, oh my god, just putting it together of like, absolutely. So then I jumped in, I did a bunch of research, I was like if this character is around longer, is more nuanced, let's research this and get this right.
This is a list of fictional characters that have been explicitly described within the work in which they appear, or otherwise by the author, as being on the autism spectrum. It is not intended to include speculation. Autistic people involved in the work may be mentioned in footnotes.
Year | Character | Series/Franchise | Author/Publisher | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1961 | Reed Richards | Fantastic Four | Marvel Comics | [1] |
1966 | Poison Ivy (as written by Tee Franklin) [a] | Harley Quinn | DC Comics | [3] |
1967 | Black Manta | Aquaman | [4] [5] | |
1986 | Johnny Do | Psi-Force | Marvel Comics | [6] [7] |
2000 | Hikaru Azuma | With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child | Keiko Tobe | [8] |
2007 | Zone | Special Forces | Kyle Baker | [9] |
2014 | Stephanie "Stephie" Bondu | Assigned Male | Sophie Labelle [b] | [11] |
2015 | Mark Shiffron | Postal | Top Cow Productions | [12] |
2016 | Brunhilde "Brun" Khoury | Questionable Content | Jeph Jacques [c] | [14] |
2016 | Emma | Jade Street Protection Services | Black Mask Studios | [15] |
2018 | Norma Khan | Deadendia: The Watcher's Test | Nobrow | [16] |
2019 | Scarlet Saltee | Archie | Archie Comics | [17] |
Year | Character | Actor | Film | Country | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1969 | Amanda | Lorena Kirk | Change of Habit | USA | [18] [19] [20] |
1969 | Philip Ransome | Mark Lester | Run Wild, Run Free | UK | [21] |
1984 | Mario | Xavier Petermann | Mario | Canada (Quebec) | [22] |
1986 | Eric Gibb | Jay Underwood | The Boy Who Could Fly | USA | [23] |
1988 | Raymond "Ray" Babbitt | Dustin Hoffman | Rain Man | USA | [24] [25] |
1990 | Shane Costello | John and Joseph Vizzi | Backstreet Dreams | USA | [26] [27] |
1993 | Randall Eberlin | Jamie Harrold | Family Pictures | USA | [28] [29] |
1993 | Sally Matthews | Asha Menina | House of Cards | USA | [30] [31] |
1994 | Michael Barth | Bradley Pierce | Cries from the Heart | USA | [32] |
1994 | David Goodson | Michael Goorjian and Steve Ivany [d] | David's Mother | USA | [34] |
1994 | Henry | Gary Farmer | Henry & Verlin | Canada | [35] |
Verlin | Keegan MacIntosh | Canada | |||
1994 | Tim Warden | Ben Faulkner | Silent Fall | USA | [36] |
1994 | Gregory White | Keegan MacIntosh | The Innocent | USA | [37] |
1995 | Rosetta Basilio | Megan Follows | Under the Piano | USA | [38] |
1997 | Chuy | Alexander Goodwin | Mimic | USA | [39] |
1997 | Kazan | Andrew Miller | Cube | Canada | [40] |
1998 | Simon Lynch | Miko Hughes | Mercury Rising | USA | [41] |
1998 | Meaghan Robinson | Laura Harling | Nightworld: Lost Souls | USA | [42] |
1998 | Tracy Sinclair | Kulani Hassen | Down in the Delta | USA / Canada | [43] |
1999 | Molly McKay | Elisabeth Shue | Molly | USA | [44] [45] |
2000 | Cody O'Connor | Holliston Coleman | Bless the Child | USA | [46] |
2002 | Chloé | Adèle Haenel | Les Diables | France | [47] |
2003 | Dewa | Dicky Lebrianto | Biola Tak Berdawai | Indonesia | [48] |
2004 | Vernon Jackson | Lucas Black | Killer Diller | USA | [49] [50] |
2004 | Jovana | Jovana Mitic [e] | Midwinter Night's Dream | Serbia | [51] |
2004 | Karl | Blake Pittman | Somersault | Australia | [52] [53] |
2004 | Steven Morgan | Zac Efron | Miracle Run | USA | [54] |
Philip Morgan | Thomas Lewis | USA | |||
2005 | Cho-won | Cho Seung-woo | Marathon | South Korea | [55] |
2005 | Rama Krishna | Jiiva | Raam | India | [56] |
2005 | Donald Morton | Josh Hartnett | Mozart and the Whale | USA | [57] |
Isabelle Sorenson [57] | Radha Mitchell | USA | |||
2006 | Bea | Poppy Rogers | Breaking and Entering | USA | [58] [59] |
2006 | Linda Freeman | Sigourney Weaver | Snow Cake | UK | [60] |
2007 | Ben | Greg Timmermans | Ben X | Belgian-Dutch | [61] |
2007 | Daniel Connelly | Harry Connick Jr. | P.S. I Love You | USA | [62] |
2007 | Anna Woodruff | Nikki Haddad | Imagination | USA | [63] |
Sarah Woodruff | Jessi Haddad | USA | [64] | ||
2008 | Charlie Mollison | Luke Ford | The Black Balloon | Australia | [65] |
Russell | Firass Dirani | Australia | |||
2008 | Poppy | Lizzy Clark [f] | Dustbin Baby | UK | [66] |
2008 | Noah Connelly | Michael Worth | God's Ears | [67] | |
2008 | Sarah | Skye Bennett | Dark Floors | Finland | [68] |
2008 | Zen | Yanin Vismitananda | Chocolate | Thailand | [69] |
2008 | Nelson Hodge | Alvin Keith | If You Could Say It in Words | USA | [70] |
2009 | Charles | Gabriel Gaudreault | Suzie | Canada (Quebec) | [71] |
2009 | Chris | James Lance | City Rats | UK | [72] |
2009 | Yoon Do‑joon | Won-bin | Mother | South Korea | [73] |
2009 | Max Horovitz | Philip Seymour Hoffman [g] | Mary and Max | Australia | [75] [76] |
2009 | Adam Raki | Hugh Dancy | Adam | USA | [76] |
2009 | Martha | Katie Boland | Dancing Trees | Canada | [77] |
2010 | Dafu | Wen Zhang | Ocean Heaven | Hong Kong | [78] |
2010 | Rizwan Khan | Shahrukh Khan | My Name Is Khan | co-production between India, the United Arab Emirates and China. | [79] |
2010 | Mandy | Ashley Rickards | Fly Away | USA | [80] |
2010 | Terry Marshall | Rhett Giles | Quantum Apocalypse | [81] | |
2010 | Tom Taylor | Charlie Tahan | Burning Bright | USA | [82] |
2010 | Alan Wheddon | Braeden Reed and Luke Benward [h] | Dear John | USA | [84] [85] |
2010 | Simon | Bill Skarsgård | Simple Simon | Sweden | [86] |
2011 | Alfred Jones | Ewan McGregor | Salmon Fishing in the Yemen | UK | [87] |
2011 | Dana Minor | Devon Graye | Exodus Fall | USA | [88] |
2011 | Yoav Pomerantz | Michael Hanegbi | Dr. Pomerantz | Israel | [89] |
2011 | Tomer Roshko | Michael Moshonov | Mabul | Israel | [90] |
2011 | Oskar Schell | Thomas Horn | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | USA | [91] |
2011 | Mickey Tussler | Luke Schroder | A Mile in His Shoes | Canada | [92] |
2012 | Jhilmil Chatterjee | Priyanka Chopra | Barfi! | India | [93] |
2012 | Walter Hill | Dexter Darden | Joyful Noise | USA | [94] |
2012 | Luke | Lou Taylor Pucci | The Story of Luke | USA | [95] |
Zack | Seth Green | ||||
2012 | Nick Young | Booboo Stewart | White Frog | USA | [96] |
2013 | Duncan | Chris Marquette | The Odd Way Home | USA | [97] |
2013 | Haridas | Prithviraj Das | Haridas | India | [98] |
2013 | Rafer | Grayson Russell | Season of Miracles | USA | [99] |
2013 | Ricky | Jesus Sanchez-Velez [i] | Stand Clear of the Closing Doors | USA | [100] |
2014 | Nathan | Asa Butterfield | X+Y | UK | [101] |
2014 | Riley Morris | Riley Polanski | Alien Abduction | USA | [102] |
2014 | Doug Davis | Leigh Whannell | Cooties | USA | [103] |
2015 | Adam | Ty Simpkins | Meadowland | USA | [104] |
2015 | Glory Adams | Taylor Richardson | Jack of the Red Hearts | USA | [105] |
2015 | Jane | Louisa Krause | Jane Wants a Boyfriend | USA | [106] |
2016 | Christian Wolff | Ben Affleck | The Accountant | USA | [107] |
2016 | Michael Taylor | David Mazouz | The Darkness | USA | [108] |
2016 | Park Young-hoon | Lee David | Split | South Korea | [109] |
2017 | Mária | Alexandra Borbély | On Body and Soul | Hungary | [110][ better source needed] |
2017 | Billy Cranston | RJ Cyler | Power Rangers | USA | [111] |
2017 | Lilly Blackburn | Lilly Jandreau | The Rider | USA | [112] [113] |
2017 | Christopher | Jacob McCarthy | The Drummer and the Keeper | Ireland | [114] |
2017 | Fang Xaioming | Wenbo Xu | Ming and Ming | [115] | |
2018 | Wendy Welcott | Dakota Fanning | Please Stand By | USA | [116] |
2018 | Rory McKenna | Jacob Tremblay | The Predator | USA | [117] [118] [119] |
2019 | Nitya | Sai Pallavi | Athiran | India | [120] |
2020 | Renee | Madison Bandy [j] | Loop | USA | [122] |
2020 | Oliver | Azhy Robertson | Come Play | USA | |
2020 | Bart Bromley | Tye Sheridan | The Night Clerk | USA | [123] |
2021 | Music Gamble | Maddie Ziegler [k] | Music | USA | [126] |
2021 | Christina | Jordanne Jones | Mildly Different | Ireland | [127] [128] [129] [130] |
2022 | Tereza | Martha Issová | Buko | Czech Rpublic | [131] [132] |
2022 | Lola | Vanessa Burghardt [l] | Cha Cha Real Smooth | USA | [133] |
Year | Character(s) | Book | Author(s) | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1964 | Manfred Steiner | Martian Time-Slip | Philip K. Dick | [134] | |
1996 | Seth Garin | The Regulators | Stephen King | King wrote this novel under the pen name Richard Bachman. | [135] |
1996 | Simon Lynch | Simple Simon | Ryne Douglas Pearson | This book was adapted into the film Mercury Rising (1998). | [136] [137] |
2000 | Marty Zellerbach | The Hades Factor | Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds | [138] | |
2000 | Patrick | Truth or Dare | Celia Rees | [139] [140] | |
2002 | Darryl McAllister | A Wizard Alone | Diane Duane | [141] | |
2002 | Shepherd O'Conner | By the Light of the Moon | Dean Koontz | [142] | |
2003 | Christopher John Francis Boone | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | Although the blurb on the back of the book says that Christopher is on the spectrum, it is not explicitly stated in the story. The book was adapted into a stage play of the same name. | [143] |
2003 | Lou Arrendale and his co-workers | Speed of Dark | Elizabeth Moon | [144] | |
2004 | Ben | Niets was alles wat hij zei ( Nothing Was All He Said) | Nic Balthazar | The book was adapted into the drama film Ben X (2007). | [61] |
2004–2009 | Natalie Flanagan | Al Capone Does My Shirts | Gennifer Choldenko | This character also appears in the sequel Al Capone Shines My Shoes. | [145] [146] |
2005 | Victor Hoppe | The Angel Maker | Stefan Brijs | [147] | |
2005 | Morgan Wiberg | The Stone Cutter | Camilla Läckberg | [148] | |
2005 | Quinn | Different Like Me: My Book of Autism Heroes | Jennifer Elder | [149] [150] | |
2006 | David | Rules | Cynthia Lord | [151] | |
2006 | Alan Wheddon | Dear John | Nicholas Sparks | Adapted into the 2010 film of the same name. | [152] |
Richard Tyree | [153] | ||||
2006 | Taylor | Do-si-Do with Autism | Sarah Stup [m] | [155] | |
2007 | Blackwolf | Soon I Will Be Invincible | Austin Grossman | [156] | |
2007 | Adam, Amelia, and Morgan | Eye Contact | Cammie McGovern | [157] | |
2008 | Jessica Fontaine | The Language of Others | Clare Morrall | [158] [159] | |
2008 | Gillian Grayson | Mass Effect: Ascension | Drew Karpyshyn | [160] | |
2008 | Mickey Tussler | The Legend of Mickey Tussler | Frank Nappi | This book was adapted into the television film A Mile in His Shoes (2011). | [161] |
2008 | Peter Michael "Little Pete" Ellison | Gone | Michael Grant | Character appears in all six "Season One" books, published between 2008 and 2013. | [162] |
2009 | Marcelo Sandoval | Marcelo in the Real World | Francisco X. Stork | [163] | |
2009 | Geert | De Autist en de Postduif | Rodaan Al Galidi | [164] | |
2009 | Aliénor Malèze | The Winter Journey | Amélie Nothomb | Original book in French: Le Voyage d'Hiver. | [165] |
2009 | Ryan Scott | Into the Silence | Sarah Pinborough | Based on the TV series Torchwood. | [166] |
2009–2011 | Malcolm Decter | WWW Trilogy | Robert J. Sawyer | Character appears in all three books, published between 2009 and 2011. | [167] |
2010 | Jacob Hunt | House Rules | Jodi Picoult | [168] | |
2010 | Max Parkman | Saving Max | Antoinette van Heugten | [169] [170] | |
2010 | Caitlin Smith | Mockingbird | Kathryn Erskine | [171] [172] | |
2010 | Dwight Tharp | The Strange Case of Origami Yoda | Tom Angleberger [n] | [174] | |
Harvey Cunningham | [175] | ||||
2010–2017 | Renarin Kholin | The Stormlight Archive | Brandon Sanderson | Character appears in all books, published 2010 to present. | [176] |
2011 | Trueman Bradley | Trueman Bradley - Aspie Detective | Alexei Maxim Russell | [177] | |
2011 | Dr. Tobias Rothman | Death Benefit | Robin Cook | [178] | |
2012 | Anthony Donatelli | Love Anthony | Lisa Genova | [179] | |
2012 | Leah | Leah's Voice | Lori DeMonia | 2014 Temple Grandin literary work of the year recipient. [180] | [181] |
2012 | Ivan Tarasov | Triggers | Robert J. Sawyer | [182] | |
2013 | Don Tillman | The Rosie Project | Graeme Simsion | [183] | |
2013 | Oscar | The Real Boy | Anne Ursu | [184] | |
2013–2017 | Harriet Manners | Geek Girl | Holly Smale [o] | Harriet is never described as autistic in any of the six books, but Smale has retroactively labelled her as such after being diagnosed with autism herself. [185] | [185] |
2014 | Rose Howard | Rain Reign | Ann M. Martin | [186] | |
2014 | Kurt Bacon | Isla and the Happily Ever After | Stephanie Perkins | [187] | |
2014 | Lin YuLong "Jade Dragon" | Michael Vey: Hunt for Jade Dragon | Richard Paul Evans | Deaf, mute, autistic savant who discovers a formula coveted by the evil Elgen. | [188] |
2014-2018 | Astra Ordott | The Gaia Chronicles | Naomi Foyle [p] | [190] | |
2015 | Paul Stephens | Paul and His Beast | Sarah Stup [m] | [191] | |
Tim | |||||
2016 | Tiberius "Ty" Blackthorn | The Dark Artifices | Cassandra Clare | [192] | |
2016 | Denise | On the Edge of Gone | Corinne Duyvis [q] | [193] | |
2017 | Aster Grey | An Unkindness of Ghosts | Rivers Solomon [r] | [195] | |
2017–2018 | Jack Kagen | There's More Than One Way Home | Donna Levin | Character also appears in the sequel, He Could Be Another Bill Gates. | [196] |
2018 | Stella Lane | The Kiss Quotient | Helen Hoang [s] | [198] | |
2019 | Edison "Eddie" Matthews | The Things We Cannot Say | Kelly Rimmer | [199] | |
2019 | Khai Diep | The Bride Test | Helen Hoang [s] | [198] | |
2020 | Elle | The Leap Cycle | Patience Agbabi | [200] | |
Big Ben | |||||
2020 | Vivy Cohen | Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! | Sarah Kapit [t] | [201] | |
2020 | Addie | A Kind of Spark | Elle McNicoll [u] | Adapted into the 2023 TV series of the same name. | [203] |
2020 | Erin | Please Don't Hug Me | Kay Kerr [v] | [204] | |
2020 | Hudson Tillman | The Rosie Result | Graeme Simsion | [205] | |
2021 | Jesse Broadview | Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse | Susan Vaught [w] | [206] | |
2021 | Lara Finkel | The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family | Sarah Kapit [t] | [207] | |
Caroline Finkel | |||||
2021 | Ester Harding | Daughter Of The Deep | Rick Riordan | [208] | |
2021 | Anna Sun | The Heart Principle | Helen Hoang [s] | [209] | |
Eve Brown | Act Your Age, Eve Brown | Talia Hibbert [x] | [210] | ||
Jacob Wayne | |||||
2021 | Zoe Kelly | Social Queue | Kay Kerr [v] | [212] | |
2021 | Charlie Hudson | American Girl | Wendy Walker | Audible original audiobook. | [213] |
2022 | Frankie | Frankie's World | Aoife Dooley [y] | [214] | |
2022 | Hafsah Al-Hadi | The Society for Soulless Girls | When she first appears, Hafsah is visibly stimming. Later in the book, she has to leave a shop because she becomes overwhelmed, due to her brain working differently to most people's. | [ citation needed] | |
2023 | Cassandra Dankworth | The Cassandra Complex | Holly Smale [o] | [215] | |
2023 | Phoebe | Finding Phoebe | Gavin Extence | [216] | |
2023 | Ariana Ruiz | The Luis Ortega Survival Club | Sonora Reyes [z] | [218] |
Year | Character | Play | Playwright | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1955 | Dame Edna Everage | Various stage and television productions | Barry Humphries [ax] | [317] [318] |
1997 | "Spoonface" Steinberg | Spoonface Steinberg | Lee Hall | [319] |
2015 | Adhvik | Chains: Love Stories of Shadows | AK Srikanth | [320] |
2017 | Luke | Mosquitoes | Lucy Kirkwood | [321] |
2019 | Lyle Masterson [ay] | Albireo | Annahis Basmadjian | [322] [323] |
2019 | Laurence | All in a Row | Alex Oates | [324] |
2023 | Various | How to Dance in Ohio | Rebecca Greer Melocik (book & lyrics), Jacob Yandura (music) |
Year | Character | Actor(s) | Video game | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2001 | Charlie Kane's unnamed son | Ian Axness | Twisted Metal Black | [325] [326] | |
2002 | Cassandra Murata | unknown | Rage of the Dragons | Evoga Entertainment's website describes Cassandra as developing "an autistic case". [327] | [327] |
2005 | Jade (The Indigo Child) | n/a; silent | Fahrenheit | [328] | |
2005 | Murky | Tatiana Vesyolkina | Pathologic | Also appears in Pathologic 2 | [329] |
2007 | Dr. Brigid Tenenbaum | Anne Bobby | BioShock | Also appears in BioShock 2, BioShock 2: Minerva's Den, and is referenced in BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea. | [330] [331] |
2007 | Simone Cole | Michelle Specht | Clive Barker's Jericho | [332] | |
2010 | David Archer | Jesse Gervais | Mass Effect 2 | Appears in the downloadable mission "Overlord". Also appears in Mass Effect 3 | [333] |
2011 | River Wyles | n/a; game does not feature voice acting | To the Moon | [334] | |
2012 | Amy | Kriss Logan (grunts) | Amy | [335] [336] | |
2012 | Patricia Tannis | Colleen Clinkenbeard | Borderlands 2 | [337] [338] | |
2014 | Cole | James Norton | Dragon Age: Inquisition | Patrick Weekes confirmed in an interview with BioFan that Cole was heavily inspired by their autistic nephew. [339] | [340] [339] |
2014 | Drake of Blades | Arianna Ratner | The Elder Scrolls Online | [341] | |
2016 | Symmetra | Anjali Bhimani | Overwatch | Referred to as "on the spectrum" in the comic "A Better World" [342] and was also confirmed to be autistic by the comic's writer [343] as well as Overwatch's game director. [344] | [345] [344] |
2016 | Josh Sauchak | Jonathan Dubsky | Watch Dogs 2 | [346] [347] | |
2017 | Rell | Stefan Martello | Warframe | Rebecca Ford has suggested that Rell has autism, whereas Steve Sinclair has stated that Rell has Asperger's syndrome. | [348] [349] |
2017 | Gin Ibushi | n/a; game does not feature voice acting | Your Turn To Die | [350] | |
2019 | Wattson | Justine Huxley | Apex Legends | [351] |
Year | Character | Actor(s) | Franchise | Medium | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2011 | Michael Falk | John Cariani | The Onion | Satirical news, online videos | [352] |
2019 | Ayda Aguefort | Brennan Lee Mulligan | Dimension 20 | Podcast | [353] [354] [355] |
2022 | Twyla Boogeyman | Kayla Cromer ( TV series), [aj] Tangina Stone (singing voice) | Monster High | Toys | [356] [357] |
2023 | Asteria | n/a [az] | Dungeons & Dragons | Tabletop role-playing game | [358] |
Being neuro-divergent myself, being on the autism spectrum, it's always been something that was part of my life—talking and none of my peers understanding what I said.
The wild card in the equation, as if there needed to be one, is Andrew Miller's autistic man.
So, I've gone over Meaghan's file, and I'm really glad you chose to bring her to us. ... We've been quite successful with autistic patients.
Sometimes. He [Karl] talks about her a lot. He's sort of obsessed with his rabbits. He's got Asperger's.
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Nicholas Gray's directorial debut, If you Could Say it in Words, is a feature film about Nelson Hodge, a young African American guy with Asperger's living in Philadelphia.
No, Alan's not retarded, John. He's autistic.
It's just Michael's autism manifesting itself in a new way
"I'm an Aspie," said Tarasov
So yeah. Mandy's probably on the spectrum. As are Billy & Grim. Mandy is the cold, rational way I learned to view the world in order to survive. Billy is the fun and joyous inner-world where I like to spend my time. And Grim is the moral mediator between the two. It's really Id, Ego, and Superego to some degree. I haven't thought about that in a long time, but that was purposeful.
Cause you know, in our version of Mystery Incorporated Fred is slightly on the spectrum.
Ninety-five percent of characters with disabilities are played by actors without those disabilities. So, it is vitally important that the character of Sean is voiced by an 11-year-old autistic boy named George Yionoulis, who did not speak until he was three years old.
Max is voiced by newcomer Israel Thomas-Bruce, a 13-year-old eighth-grader who was diagnosed with ASD when he was 4.
I guess his ASD (Autism spectrum disorder) enables him to be open about his OCD. He doesn't really care what other people think, certainly a lot less than I do.
We don't get to see much of Curtis, but as it turns out, the actor who plays Curtis, Jonathan Simao, does in fact have Asperger's syndrome; so when you are seeing him on screen, you're getting the real deal.
For American and Canadian audiences, Bruno the Brake Car will be voiced by 10-year-old autistic actor Chuck Smith from Toronto.
In her defense, Dame Edna insists she has "mild Asperger's syndrome" and "says the things other people wished they could say" but keep a lid on.
Claiming to suffer from Asperger's, bi-polar, gluten intolerance, restless legs and attention deficit disorder, there might just be a clue to the truth in that list of conditions as to why this is a farewell tour.
Her powers speak to the mind but- ah- she does not know my language. I'm autistic, Chambers. Please keep up.
Being on the spectrum (and played by a fellow on the spectrum) he has things he likes (Laura, his umbrella, quiet, whiskey, his work...) and things he doesn't. (....things that aren't Laura, his umbrella, quiet, whiskey and his work.)
An orphan with an autistic spectrum disorder, she grumbles, mutters avoids eye contact and struggles to express her thoughts.
Mission Briefing: How did an insane introvert with Asperger's manage to survive in Sanctuary
She absolutely is!
...Ayda's just like weeping tears of joy, and she's got a whole stack of books that Jawbone has given for her about autism and about the autism spectrum.
And then I was thinking about my friends that I had modeled Ayda after, it was like oh, those are my autistic friends, oh my god, just putting it together of like, absolutely. So then I jumped in, I did a bunch of research, I was like if this character is around longer, is more nuanced, let's research this and get this right.