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 | Country | ||
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1986 | Johnny Do | Psi-Force | Marvel Comics | United States | [1] [2] | |
1996 | Claudette St. Croix | Generation X | Marvel Comics | United States | [3] [4] [5] | |
2000 | Hikaru Azuma | With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child | Keiko Tobe | Japan | [6] | |
2001 | Reed Richards | Fantastic Four | Marvel Comics | United States | [7] | |
2003 | Black Manta | Aquaman | DC Comics | United States | [8] [9] | |
2007 | Zone | Special Forces | Kyle Baker | United States | [10] | |
2014 | Stephanie "Stephie" Bondu | Assigned Male | Sophie Labelle | Canada | [11] | |
2015 | Mark Shiffron | Postal | Top Cow Productions | United States | [12] | |
2016 | Brun Khoury | Questionable Content | Jeph Jacques | United States | [13] | |
2016 | Emma | Jade Street Protection Services | Black Mask Studios | United States | [14] | |
2018 | Norma Khan | Deadendia: The Watcher's Test | Nobrow | [15] | ||
2019 | Scarlet Saltee | Archie | Archie Comics | United States | [16] | |
2019 | Poison Ivy (as written by Tee Franklin) | Harley Quinn | DC Comics | United States | [17] | |
2022 | Frankie | Frankie's World | Aoife Dooley | Ireland |
Year | Character(s) | Book | Author(s) | Country | Notes | ||
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1964 | Manfred Steiner | Martian Time-Slip | Philip K. Dick | United States | [127] | ||
1996 | Seth Garin | The Regulators | Stephen King (under the pen name Richard Bachman) | United States | [128] | ||
1996 | Simon Lynch | Simple Simon | Ryne Douglas Pearson | United States | Adapted into the film Mercury Rising (1998). | [129] [130] | |
2000 | Marty Zellerbach | The Hades Factor | Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds | United States | [131] | ||
2000 | Patrick | Truth or Dare | Celia Rees | [132] [133] | |||
2002 | Darryl McAllister | A Wizard Alone | Diane Duane | United States | [134] | ||
2002 | Shepherd O'Conner | By the Light of the Moon | Dean Koontz | United States | [135] | ||
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 and was later denied by the author.[136] The book was adapted into a stage play of the same name. | [137] | ||
2003 | Lou Arrendale and his co-workers | Speed of Dark | Elizabeth Moon | United States | [138] | ||
2004 | Ben | Niets was alles wat hij zei (Nothing Was All He Said) | Nic Balthazar | Belgium | Adapted into the film Ben X (2007). | ||
2004 | Natalie Flanagan | Al Capone Does My Shirts | Gennifer Choldenko | United States | Also appears in the subsequent novels in the series. | [139] [140] | |
2005 | Victor Hoppe | The Angel Maker | Stefan Brijs | Belgium | [141] | ||
2005 | Morgan Wiberg | The Stone Cutter | Camilla Läckberg | Sweden | [142] | ||
2006 | David | Rules | Cynthia Lord | United States | [143] | ||
2006 | Alan Wheddon | Dear John | Nicholas Sparks | United States | Adapted into the 2010 film of the same name. | [144] | |
Richard Tyree | [145] | ||||||
2006 | Taylor | Do-si-Do with Autism | Sarah Stup | United States | [146] | ||
2007 | Blackwolf | Soon I Will Be Invincible | Austin Grossman | United States | [147] | ||
2007 | Adam | Eye Contact | Cammie McGovern | United States | [148] | ||
Amelia | |||||||
2008 | Jessica Fontaine | The Language of Others | Clare Morrall | [149] [150] | |||
2008 | Gillian Grayson | Drew Karpyshyn | Canada | [151] | |||
2008 | Mickey Tussler | The Legend of Mickey Tussler | Frank Nappi | United States | Adapted into the television film A Mile in His Shoes (2011). | [152] | |
2008 | Peter Michael "Little Pete" Ellison | Gone | Michael Grant | United States | Character appears in all six "Season One" books, published between 2008 and 2013. | [153] | |
2009 | Marcelo Sandoval | Marcelo in the Real World | Francisco X. Stork | United States | [154] | ||
2009 | Geert | De Autist en de Postduif | Rodaan Al Galidi | Netherlands | [155] | ||
2009 | Aliénor Malèze | The Winter Journey | Amélie Nothomb | Belgium | [156] | ||
2009 | Ryan Scott | Into the Silence | Sarah Pinborough | Based on the TV series Torchwood. | [157] | ||
2009 | Malcolm Decter | WWW Trilogy | Robert J. Sawyer | Canada | Character appears in all three books, published between 2009 and 2011. | [158] | |
2010 | Jacob Hunt | House Rules | Jodi Picoult | United States | [159] | ||
2010 | Max Parkman | Saving Max | Antoinette van Heugten | United States | [160] [161] | ||
2010 | Caitlin Smith | Mockingbird | Kathryn Erskine | United States | [162] [163] | ||
2010 | Dwight Tharp | The Strange Case of Origami Yoda | Tom Angleberger | United States | [164] | ||
Harvey Cunningham | [165] | ||||||
2010 | Renarin Kholin | The Stormlight Archive | Brandon Sanderson | United States | Character appears in all books, published 2010 to present. | [166] | |
2011 | Trueman Bradley | Trueman Bradley - Aspie Detective | Alexei Maxim Russell | Canada | [167] | ||
2012 | Anthony Donatelli | Love Anthony | Lisa Genova | United States | [168] | ||
2012 | Leah | Leah's Voice | Lori DeMonia | United States | 2014 Temple Grandin literary work of the year recipient.[169] | [170] | |
2012 | Ivan Tarasov | Triggers | Robert J. Sawyer | Canada | [171] | ||
2013 | Don Tillman | The Rosie Project | Graeme Simsion | Australia | [172] | ||
2013 | Oscar | The Real Boy | Anne Ursu | United States | [173] | ||
2013 | Harriet Manners | Geek Girl | Holly Smale | 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. | [174] | ||
2014 | Rose Howard | Rain Reign | Ann M. Martin | United States | [175] | ||
2014 | Kurt Bacon | Isla and the Happily Ever After | Stephanie Perkins | United States | [176] | ||
2014 | Lin YuLong "Jade Dragon" | Richard Paul Evans | United States | [177] | |||
2014 | Astra Ordott | The Gaia Chronicles | Naomi Foyle | / Canada | [178] | ||
2015 | Paul Stephens | Paul and His Beast | Sarah Stup | United States | [179] | ||
Tim | |||||||
2016 | Tiberius "Ty" Blackthorn | The Dark Artifices | Cassandra Clare | United States | [180] | ||
2016 | Denise | On the Edge of Gone | Corinne Duyvis | Netherlands | [181] | ||
2017 | Aster Grey | An Unkindness of Ghosts | Rivers Solomon | United States | [182] | ||
2017 | Jack Kagen | There's More Than One Way Home | Donna Levin | United States | Also appears in the sequel, He Could Be Another Bill Gates. | [183] | |
2018 | Stella Lane | The Kiss Quotient | Helen Hoang | United States | [184] | ||
2019 | Avery Lou | The Boy Who Steals Houses | C.G. Drews | Australia | [185] | ||
2019 | Edison "Eddie" Matthews | The Things We Cannot Say | Kelly Rimmer | Australia | [186] | ||
2019 | Khai Diep | The Bride Test | Helen Hoang | United States | |||
2019 | Ewan West | Underdogs | Chris Bonnello | [187] | |||
Kate Arrowsmith | |||||||
2020 | Elle | The Leap Cycle | Patience Agbabi | [188] | |||
Big Ben | |||||||
2020 | Vivy Cohen | Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! | Sarah Kapit | United States | [189] | ||
2020 | Keedie Darrow | A Kind of Spark | Elle McNicoll | Adapted into the 2023 TV series of the same name. | [190] | ||
Addie Darrow | |||||||
Elinor Fraser | |||||||
2020 | Erin | Please Don't Hug Me | Kay Kerr | Australia | [191] | ||
2020 | Unnamed protagonist | A Room Called Earth | Madeleine Ryan | Australia | [192] [193] | ||
2020 | Hudson Tillman | The Rosie Result | Graeme Simsion | Australia | [194] | ||
2021 | Jesse Broadview | Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse | Susan Vaught | United States | |||
2021 | Lara Finkel | The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family | Sarah Kapit | United States | [195] | ||
Caroline Finkel | |||||||
2021 | Ester Harding | Daughter Of The Deep | Rick Riordan | United States | [196] | ||
2021 | Anna Sun | The Heart Principle | Helen Hoang | United States | [197] | ||
Eve Brown | Act Your Age, Eve Brown | Talia Hibbert | [198] | ||||
Jacob Wayne | |||||||
2021 | Zoe Kelly | Social Queue | Kay Kerr | Australia | [199] | ||
2023 | Cassandra Dankworth | The Cassandra Complex | Holly Smale | [200] | |||
2023 | Phoebe | Finding Phoebe | Gavin Extence | [201] | |||
2023 | Ariana Ruiz | The Luis Ortega Survival Club | Sonora Reyes | United States | [202] | ||
2023 | Rose | Camp Damascus | Chuck Tingle | United States | |||
2023 | Sunday | All the Little Bird-Hearts | Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow |
Year | Character | Play | Playwright | Country | ||
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1955 | Dame Edna Everage | Various stage and television productions | Barry Humphries | Australia | [295] [296] | |
1997 | "Spoonface" Steinberg | Spoonface Steinberg | Lee Hall | [297] | ||
2015 | Adhvik | AK Srikanth | India | [298] | ||
2017 | Luke | Mosquitoes | Lucy Kirkwood | [299] | ||
2019 | Lyle Masterson | Albireo | Annahis Basmadjian | Canada | [300] [301] | |
2019 | Laurence | All in a Row | Alex Oates | [302] [303] | ||
2023 | Various | How to Dance in Ohio | Rebecca Greer Melocik (book & lyrics), Jacob Yandura (music) | United States | [304] |
Year | Character | Actor(s) | Franchise | Medium | Country | ||
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2011 | Michael Falk | John Cariani | The Onion | Satirical news, online videos | United States | [334] | |
2019-2024 | Ayda Aguefort | Brennan Lee Mulligan | Dimension 20 | Actual play | United States | [335] [336] [337] | |
2022 | Twyla Boogeyman | Kayla Cromer (TV series), Tangina Stone (singing voice) | Monster High | Toys | United States | [338] [339] | |
2022 | Jiang Dong-ping | Peng Haoqin | Unlocking Music | Web series | |||
2023 | Asteria | n/a | Dungeons & Dragons | Tabletop role-playing game | United States | ||
2023 | Shuai Jiamo | Zhang Ruoyun | Under The Microscope | Web series | China | [340] |