I’ve loved this book for decades. Read it multiple times. Thinking about it a bit, and I believe the Mc is autism coded.
Anyone else read this and agree?
Anyone have examples of this in other areas?
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Seven of Nine?
Oooh good one.
You want an autistically-coded sci-fi main character? The Murderbot Diaries have you covered.
Caliban’s war from the expanse series has a definitely autistic, arguably main character that is just delightful.
JonahJudah from Bojack horseman is very clearly autistic, but it’s never mentioned or even the source of any plot point. He’s just a regular character who happens to be autistic and has his own plot things and stuff.Edit: misremembered the name
Vincent Adultman also feels sympathetic. Not straight autistic, but clearly heavily masking.
Well of course he’s masking, he’s hiding the fact that he’s three kids in a trenchcoat
I think you mean Judah from BJHM. AFAIK that show doesn’t have a character named Jonah.
But Jonah from Ozark is also fairly autism coded although it’s only ever directly implied once in the first episode when he’s called r*tarded by his sister
I actually read this recently and I don’t think he’s autistic, but he was definitely written intentionally to show how a fairly confident, competent person (bordering on smug, but not quite) would struggle on prism.
The ones that come to mind:
- Captain Raymond Holt in Brooklyn 99
- Sheldon Cooper from the Big Bang Theory
- Mr Spock from Star Trek
- Gus Fring from Breaking Bad (maybe)
Yeah definitely a thing. I’m not familiar with the book you had mentioned, but I know from the show Bones, the main character Temperance Brennan, is very autism coded. It’s never officially indicated, in the show, what her deal is when it comes to social interactions, but it’s been hinted on officially by staff and writers that she is autistic to some degree. It’s not a very accurate portrayal of high functioning autism, however it technically counts I guess?
TV tropes has a few categories that cover this. They don’t limit the disorders to autism in most of the categories but the examples are more autism than anything else.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DiagnosedByTheAudience
No experience with that book, but a lot of literature has autistim coded characters. Lot, well sort of, debate in the Warhammer 40k communities about a fair number of autism coded characters there. I can’t remember who all they’ve said since I avoid a lot of the conversations but if I remember right a fair number of Space Marines, and their ‘traitor’ brethren are ‘autistic’.
Egon Spengler and his grand-daughter Phoebe from the Ghostbusters franchise. The character of Ray Stanz also has some traits, no doubt assisted by the fact that actor Dan Ackroyd is autistic.
I have heard heard some people claim that Jernau Morat Gurgeh (from Player of Games by Ian M Banks) is probably autistic, but personally i think he’s more Ace-coded than anything else. Maybe you might think otherwise?
Personally I think a better example is Stafl-Preonsa Fal Shilde 'Ngeestra dam Crose, the Referrer from Consider Phlebas. She has a fixation on free solo climbing, and enough brainpower that supercomputers go to her for advice. I personally found the robot that was crushing on her to be super cute.
I read Kyr in Emily Tesh’s “Some Desperate Glory” as autistic.
L from death note is a commonly given example I think.
Never heard of this book but the title, the blurb above it and the art itself make me wanna read the fuck out of it.
Hank Hill from King of the Hill
I mean not to point in any particular direction but I do feel like Dead Eye is aut as fuck. But like you know - ppl gunna be whoever they are.
Also what book!?
It looks like catbox images aren’t loading. It’s “sentenced to Prism” by Alan Dean Foster
Never heard of it but I’ll give it a checkie-weckie out =) Ty btw~
