List of autistic fictional characters

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.

Comics

Year	Character	Series/Franchise	Author/Publisher	Country	Ref.
1986	Johnny Do	Psi-Force	Marvel Comics	USA	[1][2]
1996	Claudette St. Croix	Generation X	Marvel Comics	USA	[3][4][5]
2000	Hikaru Azuma	With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child	Keiko Tobe	Japan	[6]
2001	Reed Richards	Fantastic Four	Marvel Comics	USA	[7]
2003	Black Manta	Aquaman	DC Comics	USA	[8][9]
2007	Zone	Special Forces	Kyle Baker	USA	[10]
2014	Stephanie "Stephie" Bondu	Assigned Male	Sophie Labelle[a]	Canada	[12]
2015	Mark Shiffron	Postal	Top Cow Productions	USA	[13]
2016	Brun Khoury	Questionable Content	Jeph Jacques[b]	USA	[15]
2016	Emma	Jade Street Protection Services	Black Mask Studios	USA	[16]
2018	Norma Khan	Deadendia: The Watcher's Test	Nobrow	UK	[17]
2019	Scarlet Saltee	Archie	Archie Comics	USA	[18]
2019	Poison Ivy (as written by Tee Franklin)[c]	Harley Quinn	DC Comics	USA	[20]
2022	Frankie	Frankie's World	Aoife Dooley[d]	Ireland	[21]

Film

Year	Character	Actor	Film	Country	Ref.
1969	Amanda	Lorena Kirk	Change of Habit	USA	[22][23][24]
1984	Mario	Xavier Petermann	Mario	Canada	[25][26]
1986	Eric Gibb	Jay Underwood	The Boy Who Could Fly	USA	[27]
1988	Raymond "Ray" Babbitt	Dustin Hoffman	Rain Man	USA	[28][29]
1990	Shane Costello	John and Joseph Vizzi	Backstreet Dreams	USA	[30][31]
1993	Randall Eberlin	Jamie Harrold	Family Pictures	USA	[32][33]
1993	Sally Matthews	Asha Menina	House of Cards	USA	[34][35]
1994	Michael Barth	Bradley Pierce	Cries from the Heart	USA	[36]
1994	David Goodson	Michael A. Goorjian and Steve Ivany[e]	David's Mother	USA	[38]
1994	Henry	Gary Farmer	Henry & Verlin	Canada	[39]
	Verlin	Keegan MacIntosh
1994	Tim Warden	Ben Faulkner	Silent Fall	USA	[40]
1994	Gregory White	Keegan MacIntosh	The Innocent	USA	[41]
1995	Rosetta Basilio	Megan Follows	Under the Piano	USA	[42]
1997	Chuy	Alexander Goodwin	Mimic	USA	[43]
1998	Simon Lynch	Miko Hughes	Mercury Rising	USA	[44]
1998	Meaghan Robinson	Laura Harling	Nightworld: Lost Souls	USA	[45]
1998	Tracy Sinclair	Kulani Hassen	Down in the Delta	USA/ Canada	[46]
1999	Molly McKay	Elisabeth Shue	Molly	USA	[47][48]
2000	Cody O'Connor	Holliston Coleman	Bless the Child	USA	[49]
2002	Chloé	Adèle Haenel	Les Diables	France	[50]
2003	Dewa	Dicky Lebrianto	Biola Tak Berdawai	Indonesia	[51]
2003	Nicky Shields	Jamie Martin	Hear the Silence	UK	[52][53]
2004	Vernon Jackson	Lucas Black	Killer Diller	USA	[54][55]
2004	Jovana	Jovana Mitic[f]	Midwinter Night's Dream	Serbia	[56]
2004	Karl	Blake Pittman	Somersault	Australia	[57][58]
2004	Steven Morgan	Zac Efron	Miracle Run	USA	[59]
	Philip Morgan	Thomas Lewis
2005	Cho-won	Cho Seung-woo	Marathon	South Korea	[60]
2005	Rama Krishna	Jiiva	Raam	India	[61]
2005	Donald Morton	Josh Hartnett	Mozart and the Whale	USA	[62]
	Isabelle Sorenson	Radha Mitchell
2006	Bea	Poppy Rogers	Breaking and Entering	USA/ UK	[63][64]
2006	Linda Freeman	Sigourney Weaver	Snow Cake	Canada/ UK	[65]
2007	Ben	Greg Timmermans [nl]	Ben X	Belgium/ Netherlands	[66]
2007	Daniel Connelly	Harry Connick Jr.	P.S. I Love You	USA	[67]
2007	Anna Woodruff	Nikki Haddad	Imagination	USA	[68]
	Sarah Woodruff	Jessi Haddad			[69]
2008	Charlie Mollison	Luke Ford	The Black Balloon	Australia	[70]
2008	Poppy	Lizzy Clark[g]	Dustbin Baby	UK	[71]
2008	Noah Connelly	Michael Worth	God's Ears	USA	[72]
2008	Sarah	Skye Bennett	Dark Floors	Finland	[73]
2008	Zen	Yanin Vismitananda	Chocolate	Thailand	[74]
2008	Nelson Hodge	Alvin Keith	If You Could Say It in Words	USA	[75]
2009	Charles	Gabriel Gaudreault	Suzie	Canada	[76]
2009	Chris	James Lance	City Rats	UK	[77]
2009	Yoon Do‑joon	Won-bin	Mother	South Korea	[78][better source needed]
2009	Max Horovitz	Philip Seymour Hoffman[h]	Mary and Max	Australia	[80][81]
2009	Adam Raki	Hugh Dancy	Adam	USA	[81]
2009	Martha	Katie Boland	Dancing Trees	Canada	[82]
2010	Dafu	Wen Zhang	Ocean Heaven	Hong Kong	[83]
2010	Rizwan Khan	Shahrukh Khan	My Name Is Khan	India/ USA/ UAE/ Hong Kong	[84]
2010	Mandy	Ashley Rickards	Fly Away	USA	[85]
2010	Tom Taylor	Charlie Tahan	Burning Bright	USA	[86]
2010	Alan Wheddon	Braeden Reed and Luke Benward[i]	Dear John	USA	[88][89]
2010	Simon	Bill Skarsgård	Simple Simon	Sweden	[90]
2011	Alfred Jones	Ewan McGregor	Salmon Fishing in the Yemen	UK	[91]
2011	Dana Minor	Devon Graye	Exodus Fall	USA	[92]
2011	Yoav Pomerantz	Michael Hanegbi	Dr. Pomerantz	Israel	[93]
2011	Tomer Roshko	Michael Moshonov	Mabul	Israel	[94]
2011	Oskar Schell	Thomas Horn	Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close	USA	[95]
2011	Mickey Tussler	Luke Schroder	A Mile in His Shoes	Canada	[96]
2012	Jhilmil Chatterjee	Priyanka Chopra	Barfi!	India	[97]
2012	Walter Hill	Dexter Darden	Joyful Noise	USA	[98]
2012	Luke	Lou Taylor Pucci	The Story of Luke	USA	[99]
	Zack	Seth Green
2012	Nick Young	Booboo Stewart	White Frog	USA	[100]
2013	Duncan	Chris Marquette	The Odd Way Home	USA	[101]
2013	Haridas	Prithviraj Das	Haridas	India	[102]
2013	Rafer	Grayson Russell	Season of Miracles	USA	[103]
2013	Ricky	Jesus Sanchez-Velez[j]	Stand Clear of the Closing Doors	USA	[104]
2013	Ataru	Masahiro Nakai	Ataru: The First Love & the Last Kill	Japan	[105]
	Alessandro Carolina Madoka	Maki Horikita
2014	Nathan	Asa Butterfield	X+Y	UK	[106]
2014	Riley Morris	Riley Polanski	Alien Abduction	USA	[107]
2015	Adam	Ty Simpkins	Meadowland	USA	[108]
2015	Etienne	Lucas Reiber	Fack ju Göhte 2	Germany	[109]
2015	Glory Adams	Taylor Richardson	Jack of the Red Hearts	USA	[110]
2015	Jane	Louisa Krause	Jane Wants a Boyfriend	USA	[111]
2016	Christian Wolff	Ben Affleck	The Accountant	USA	[112]
2016	Michael Taylor	David Mazouz	The Darkness	USA	[113]
2016	Park Young-hoon	Lee David	Split	South Korea	[114]
2017	Mária	Alexandra Borbély	On Body and Soul	Hungary	[115][better source needed]
2017	Billy Cranston	RJ Cyler	Power Rangers	USA	[116]
2017	Lilly Blackburn	Lilly Jandreau	The Rider	USA	[117][118]
2017	Christopher	Jacob McCarthy	The Drummer and the Keeper	Ireland	[119]
2017	Fang Xiaoming	Wenbo Xu	Ming and Ming	China	[120][better source needed]
2018	Wendy Welcott	Dakota Fanning	Please Stand By	USA	[121]
2018	Rory McKenna	Jacob Tremblay	The Predator	USA	[122][123][124]
2019	Nitya	Sai Pallavi	Athiran	India	[125]
2019	Chris	Simon Hodges	Mind My Mind [nl]	Netherlands/ Belgium	[126][127]
2019	Jack Dory	Kiljan Tyr Moroney	Calm with Horses	Ireland	[128]
2020	Renee	Madison Bandy[k]	Loop	USA	[130]
2020	Oliver	Azhy Robertson	Come Play	USA	[131]
2020	Bart Bromley	Tye Sheridan	The Night Clerk	USA	[132]
2021	Music Gamble	Maddie Ziegler[l]	Music	USA	[135]
2021	Christina	Jordanne Jones	Mildly Different	Ireland	[136][137][138]
2022	Tereza	Martha Issová	Buko	Czech Republic	[139][140]
2022	Lola	Vanessa Burghardt[m]	Cha Cha Real Smooth	USA	[141]
2023	Ezra	William A. Fitzgerald[n]	Ezra	USA	[142][143]
2023	Kingston Chung	Yeung Wai Lun	Over My Dead Body	Hong Kong	[144]
2024	Kali	John Tyrron Ramos	Love Child	Philippines	[145]
2024	Ludovica De Angelis	Rita Abela	Flaminia	Italy	[146]

Literature

Year	Character(s)	Book	Author(s)	Country	Notes	Ref.
1964	Manfred Steiner	Martian Time-Slip	Philip K. Dick	USA		[147]
1996	Seth Garin	The Regulators	Stephen King (under the pen name Richard Bachman)	USA		[148]
1996	Simon Lynch	Simple Simon	Ryne Douglas Pearson	USA	Adapted into the film Mercury Rising (1998).	[149][150]
2000	Marty Zellerbach	The Hades Factor	Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds	USA		[151]
2000	Patrick	Truth or Dare	Celia Rees	England		[152][153]
2002	Darryl McAllister	A Wizard Alone	Diane Duane	USA		[154]
2002	Shepherd O'Conner	By the Light of the Moon	Dean Koontz	USA		[155]
2003	Christopher John Francis Boone	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Mark Haddon	England	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.[156] The book was adapted into a stage play of the same name.	[157]
2003	Lou Arrendale and his co-workers	Speed of Dark	Elizabeth Moon	USA		[158]
2004	Ben	Niets was alles wat hij zei (Nothing Was All He Said)	Nic Balthazar	Belgium	Adapted into the film Ben X (2007).	[66]
2004	Natalie Flanagan	Al Capone Does My Shirts	Gennifer Choldenko	USA	Also appears in the subsequent novels in the series.	[159][160]
2005	Victor Hoppe	The Angel Maker	Stefan Brijs	Belgium		[161]
2005	Morgan Wiberg	The Stone Cutter	Camilla Läckberg	Sweden		[162]
2006	David	Rules	Cynthia Lord	USA		[163]
2006	Alan Wheddon	Dear John	Nicholas Sparks	USA	Adapted into the 2010 film of the same name.	[164]
	Richard Tyree					[165]
2006	Taylor	Do-si-Do with Autism	Sarah Stup[o]	USA		[167]
2007	Blackwolf	Soon I Will Be Invincible	Austin Grossman	USA		[168]
2007	Adam	Eye Contact	Cammie McGovern	USA		[169]
	Amelia
2008	Jessica Fontaine	The Language of Others	Clare Morrall	England		[170][171]
2008	Gillian Grayson	Mass Effect: Ascension	Drew Karpyshyn	Canada		[172]
2008	Mickey Tussler	The Legend of Mickey Tussler	Frank Nappi	USA	Adapted into the television film A Mile in His Shoes (2011).	[173]
2008	Peter Michael "Little Pete" Ellison	Gone	Michael Grant	USA	Character appears in all six "Season One" books, published between 2008 and 2013.	[174]
2009	Marcelo Sandoval	Marcelo in the Real World	Francisco X. Stork	USA		[175]
2009	Geert	De Autist en de Postduif	Rodaan Al Galidi	Netherlands		[176]
2009	Aliénor Malèze	The Winter Journey	Amélie Nothomb	Belgium		[177]
2009	Ryan Scott	Into the Silence	Sarah Pinborough	England	Based on the TV series Torchwood.	[178]
2009	Malcolm Decter	WWW Trilogy	Robert J. Sawyer	Canada	Character appears in all three books, published between 2009 and 2011.	[179]
2010	Jacob Hunt	House Rules	Jodi Picoult	USA		[180]
2010	Max Parkman	Saving Max	Antoinette van Heugten	USA		[181][182]
2010	Caitlin Smith	Mockingbird	Kathryn Erskine	USA		[183][184]
2010	Dwight Tharp	The Strange Case of Origami Yoda	Tom Angleberger[p]	USA		[186]
	Harvey Cunningham					[187]
2010	Renarin Kholin	The Stormlight Archive	Brandon Sanderson	USA	Character appears in all books, published 2010 to present.	[188]
2011	Trueman Bradley	Trueman Bradley - Aspie Detective	Alexei Maxim Russell	Canada		[189]
2011	James Donovan Halliday	Ready Player One	Ernest Cline	USA		[190]
2012	Anthony Donatelli	Love Anthony	Lisa Genova	USA		[191]
2012	Leah	Leah's Voice	Lori DeMonia	USA	2014 Temple Grandin literary work of the year recipient.[192]	[193]
2012	Ivan Tarasov	Triggers	Robert J. Sawyer	Canada		[194]
2012	Sammy	Amber House	Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed and Larkin Reed	USA		[195]
2012	Colin Fischer	Colin Fischer	Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz[q]	USA		[196]
2013	Don Tillman	The Rosie Project	Graeme Simsion	Australia		[197]
2013	Oscar	The Real Boy	Anne Ursu	USA		[198]
2013	Harriet Manners	Geek Girl	Holly Smale[r]	England	Harriet is never described as autistic in any of the six books, but Smale has retroactively labelled her as such after being diagnosed as autistic herself.[199]	[199]
2014	Rose Howard	Rain Reign	Ann M. Martin	USA		[200]
2014	Kurt Bacon	Isla and the Happily Ever After	Stephanie Perkins	USA		[201]
2014	Lin YuLong "Jade Dragon"	Michael Vey: Hunt for Jade Dragon	Richard Paul Evans	USA		[202]
2014	Astra Ordott	The Gaia Chronicles	Naomi Foyle[s]	England/ Canada		[204]
2015	Paul Stephens	Paul and His Beast	Sarah Stup[o]	USA		[205]
	Tim
2016	Tiberius "Ty" Blackthorn	The Dark Artifices	Cassandra Clare	USA		[206]
2016	Denise	On the Edge of Gone	Corinne Duyvis[t]	Netherlands		[207]
2017	Aster Grey	An Unkindness of Ghosts	Rivers Solomon[u]	USA		[209]
2017	Jack Kagen	There's More Than One Way Home	Donna Levin	USA	Also appears in the sequel, He Could Be Another Bill Gates.	[210]
2018	Luke Jennings	The Fox	Frederick Forsyth	England		[211]
2018	Stella Lane	The Kiss Quotient	Helen Hoang[v]	USA		[213]
2019	Avery Lou	The Boy Who Steals Houses	C.G. Drews[w]	Australia		[215]
2019	Edison "Eddie" Matthews	The Things We Cannot Say	Kelly Rimmer	Australia		[216]
2019	Khai Diep	The Bride Test	Helen Hoang[v]	USA		[213]
2019	Ewan West	Underdogs	Chris Bonnello[x]	England		[218]
	Kate Arrowsmith
2020	Elle	The Leap Cycle	Patience Agbabi	England		[219]
	Big Ben
2020	Vivy Cohen	Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!	Sarah Kapit[y]	USA		[220]
2020	Keedie Darrow	A Kind of Spark	Elle McNicoll[z]	Scotland	Adapted into the 2023 TV series of the same name.	[222]
	Addie Darrow
	Elinor Fraser
2020	Erin	Please Don't Hug Me	Kay Kerr[aa]	Australia		[223]
2020	Unnamed protagonist	A Room Called Earth	Madeleine Ryan[ab]	Australia		[224][225]
2020	Hudson Tillman	The Rosie Result	Graeme Simsion	Australia		[226]
2021	Jesse Broadview	Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse	Susan Vaught[ac]	USA		[227]
2021	Lara Finkel	The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family	Sarah Kapit[y]	USA		[228]
	Caroline Finkel
2021	Ester Harding	Daughter Of The Deep	Rick Riordan	USA		[229]
2021	Anna Sun	The Heart Principle	Helen Hoang[v]	USA		[230]
	Eve Brown	Act Your Age, Eve Brown	Talia Hibbert[ad]	England		[231]
	Jacob Wayne
2021	Zoe Kelly	Social Queue	Kay Kerr[aa]	Australia		[233]
2022	Nick	Hell Followed with Us	Andrew Joseph White[ae]	USA		[234]
2023	Cassandra Dankworth	The Cassandra Complex	Holly Smale[r]	England		[235]
2023	Phoebe	Finding Phoebe	Gavin Extence	England		[236]
2023	Ariana Ruiz	The Luis Ortega Survival Club	Sonora Reyes[af]	USA		[238]
2023	Rose	Camp Damascus	Chuck Tingle[ag]	USA		[239]
2023	Sunday	All the Little Bird-Hearts	Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow[ah]	UK		[240]

Television

Year	Character	Actor(s)	Episode(s)	Series	Country	Ref.
1983	Tommy Westphall	Chad Allen		St. Elsewhere	USA	[241]
2000	Lily Montgomery	Leven Rambin		All My Children	USA	[242]
2000	Mayuko Amemiya	Rie Tomosaka		Kimi ga Oshietekureta-koto	Japan	[243]
2000	Akira Takano	Fumiya Fujii		Tenshi ga Kieta Machi	Japan	[244]
2001	Martin Miller	Matthew Buckley		Grange Hill	UK	[245]
2001	Billy	Richard Steven Horvitz		Grim and Evil/The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy[ai]	USA	[246]
	Mandy	Grey DeLisle
	Grim	Greg Eagles
2002	Annie Wheaton	Kimberly J. Brown		Rose Red	USA	[247]
2003	Wally Stevens	Mark Linn-Baker	"Probability"	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	USA	[248]
2004	Bob Melnikov	Dmitry Chepovetsky		ReGenesis	Canada	[249]
2004	Hikaru Azuma	Ryusei Saito		With the Light	Japan	[250]
2005	Spencer Reid	Matthew Gray Gubler		Criminal Minds	USA	[251]
2005	Temperance Brennan	Emily Deschanel		Bones	USA	[252]
2006	Adam	Braeden Lemasters	"Lines in the Sand"	House M.D.	USA	[253]
2006	Kevin Blake	Meschach Peters and Trevor Jackson		Eureka	USA	[254]
2007	Manny Rivera/El Tigre	Alanna Ubach[aj]		El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera	USA	[255]
2007	Brandon Powell	Jake Cherry	"Fear Itself"	The 4400	USA	[256]
2007	Karla Bentham	Jessica Baglow	season 3-5	Waterloo Road	UK	[257]
2008	Connor DeLaurier	A.J. Saudin		Degrassi: The Next Generation	Canada	[258]
2008	Virginia Dixon	Mary McDonnell	"These Ties That Bind" "All By Myself" "Beat Your Heart Out"	Grey's Anatomy	USA	[259]
2009	Robert Daly	Sam Peter Corry		Fair City	Ireland	[260][261]
2009	Gabrielle Jacobs	Virginie Le Brun		Shortland Street	New Zealand	[262]
2009	Jonah Jeremiah "JJ" Jones	Ollie Barbieri		Skins	UK	[263]
2009	Abed Nadir	Danny Pudi[ak]		Community	USA	[265][266]
2010	Max Braverman	Max Burkholder		Parenthood	USA	[267]
2010	Fred Jones	Frank Welker		Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated	USA	[268]
2010	Carl Gould	Dwayne Hill		Arthur	USA/ Canada	[269]
2010	Gus Carmichael	Noah Marullo		Tracy Beaker Returns/The Dumping Ground	UK	[270]
2010	Micaela Gómez	Mónica Spear		La mujer perfecta (The Perfect Woman)	Venezuela	[271]
2011	Gary Bell	Ryan Cartwright		Alphas	USA	[272]
2011	The parallel universe version of Astrid Farnsworth	Jasika Nicole		Fringe	USA	[273]
2011	Saga Norén	Sofia Helin		The Bridge	Sweden/ Denmark	[274]
2012	Jacob "Jake" Bohm	David Mazouz		Touch	USA	[275]
2012	Ataru	Masahiro Nakai		Ataru	Japan	[276]
2012	Shahir Hamza	Husein Madhavji		Saving Hope	Canada	[277]
2012	Birgit Goethals	Ruth Becquart		Clan	Belgium	[278]
2013	Elise Wassermann	Clémence Poésy		The Tunnel	UK/ France	[279]
2013	Sonya Cross	Diane Kruger		The Bridge	USA	[280]
2013	Noah Hoynes	Oscar Kennedy		The Politician's Husband	UK	[281]
2013	Park Shi-on	Joo Won		Good Doctor	South Korea	[282][283]
2013	Rick Sanchez	Justin Roiland (Season 1–6) Ian Cardoni (Season 7-Present)		Rick and Morty	USA	[284]
2013	Mr. Fingers	Steven Hao	episodes 1-4 and 14	Amour et Pâtisserie	Taiwan	[285]
2013	Yao Zitao	Alston Yeo Jun Yi		The Dream Makers	Singapore	[286]
2014	Sean Stone	Reece Shearsmith		Chasing Shadows	UK	[287]
2015	Isadora Smackle	Cecilia Balagot		Girl Meets World	USA	[288]
2015	Stina Vik	Esmeralda Struwe		Modus	Sweden	[289]
2015	Shinya Kiryu	Satoshi Hirabayashi	"心を閉ざした少年に起きた奇跡!? ボクがママを守る!"	Dr. Rintarō	Japan	[290]
2016	Fiona 'Mittens' Helbron	Betty Gilpin	"Murder Ex Machina" "A View with a Room" "Ready or Not"	Elementary	USA	[291]
2016	Jason Haynes	Jules Robertson[al]	Series 18-23	Holby City	UK	[292]
2016	Joe Hughes	Max Vento		The A Word	UK	[293]
2017	Julia	Stacey Gordon		Sesame Street	USA	[294]
2017	Shaun Murphy	Freddie Highmore		The Good Doctor	USA	[295]
2017	Sam Gardner	Keir Gilchrist		Atypical	USA	[296]
2017	Dean Simms	Harold Perrineau		Claws	USA	[297]
2017	Pablo	Jake Williamson (voice), William and Oliver Burns (live-action)[am]		Pablo	UK/ Ireland	[298]
2018	James Coulter	Daniel Kerr	20 April—12 October 2018	Doctors	UK	[299][300]
2018	Entrapta	Christine Woods[an]		She-Ra and the Princesses of Power	USA	[301]
2018	Donatello	Josh Brener		Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	USA	[303]
2018	Townes Linderman	Daniel Maslany		Impulse	USA	[304]
2018	Greta Allinson	Zoe Croft[ao]		Holby City	UK	[292]
2018	Phoenix Hathaway	Tylan Grant[ap]		Hollyoaks	UK	[306]
2018	Zohar	Naomi Levov		On the Spectrum	Israel	[307]
	Ron	Niv Majar
	Amit	Ben Yosipovich
2018	Minato Shindo	Kento Yamazaki		Good Doctor	Japan	[308]
2019	Lana Moore	Vered Blonstein[aq]	"Xin"	The Good Doctor	USA	[310][311]
	Javier "Javi" Maldonado	Alex Plank[ar]
2019	Dawkins	Rhys Isaac-Jones		101 Dalmatian Street	UK/ Canada	[313]
2019	Astrid Nielsen	Sara Mortensen[as]		Astrid et Raphaëlle	France/ Belgium	[314]
2019	Carl Destoop	Zouzou Ben Chikha		The Twelve	Belgium	[315]
2019	Amistad Ervin	Kurtis Mansfield	Third season onwards	Young Justice	USA	[316]
2019	Snork	Chance Perdomo		Moominvalley	Finland/ UK	[317]
2019	Matthew	Paras Patel		The Chosen	USA	[318]
2020	Matilda Moss	Kayla Cromer[at]		Everything's Gonna Be Okay	USA	[319]
	Jeremy	Carsen Warner[au]				[320]
	Nicholas	Josh Thomas[av]				[321]
	Drea	Lillian Carrier				[322]
2020	AJ Gadgets	Jadiel Dowlin		Hero Elementary	USA/ Canada	[323]
2020	Sean	George Yionoulis[aw]	"Nancy's New Friend"	Fancy Nancy	USA	[324]
2020	Misha	Eldar Kalimulin		To the Lake	Russia	[325]
2020	Marcy Wu	Haley Tju		Amphibia	USA	[326][better source needed]
2020	Fang Yi-Jen	Joseph Chang		The Victims' Game	Taiwan	[327]
2021	Max	Israel Thomas-Bruce[ax]	"Daniel's New Friend Max"	Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood	USA/ Canada	[329]
2021	Han Geu-Ru	Tang Jun-sang		Move to Heaven	South Korea	[330]
2021	Sara Eriksson	Frida Argento[ay]		Young Royals	Sweden	[332]
2021	Jasper Tempest	Ben Miller		Professor T.	UK	[333]
2021	Curtis	Jonathan Simao		Turner & Hooch	USA	[334]
	Anthony	Lucas Yao
2022	Jack Hoffman	Rick Glassman[az]		As We See It	USA	[336]
	Harrison Dietrich	Albert Rutecki[ba]
	Violet Wu	Sue Ann Pien[bb]
2022	Norma Khan	Kody Kavitha[bc]		Dead End: Paranormal Park	UK/ USA	[339]
2022	Woo Young-woo	Park Eun-bin		Extraordinary Attorney Woo	South Korea	[340]
2022	Bruno	Chuck Smith (United States/Canada) and Elliot Garcia (United Kingdom)[bd]		Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go	USA/ Canada	[343]
2022	Quinni Gallagher-Jones	Chloé Hayden[be]		Heartbreak High	Australia	[344]
2023	BeBe Proud	Aiden Dodson[bf]		The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder	USA	[346][347]
2023	Arthur	Victor Ferreira[bg]	Season 1	Use Sua Voz [pt]	Brazil	[348]
2023	Edward	Rick Glassman[az]		Not Dead Yet	USA	[349]
2023	June Chen	Sue Ann Pien[bb]		The Ghost and Molly McGee	USA	[350]
2023	Lena Głowacka	Martyna Byczkowska		Absolute Beginners	Poland	[351]
2023	Addie Darrow	Lola Blue[bh]	Season 1-2	A Kind of Spark	UK/ Ireland/ USA/ Canada	[352][353]
	Keedie Darrow	Georgia De Gidlow[bi]	Season 1-2
	Elinor Fraser	Ella Maisy Purvis[bj]	Season 1
2024	Bonnie Bridges		Season 2
2024	Nina	Ashley Storrie[bk]		Dinosaur	UK	[354]
2024	Alice Yaemori	Mugi Kadowaki		Alice in Wonderful Kitchen	Japan	[355]
2024	Charlotte “Charlie” Lukaitis	Kayla Cromer[bl]	Season 7	The Good Doctor	USA	[356]
2024	Kojo Asare	Dayo Koleosho[bm]		EastEnders	UK	[358]
2024	Carl	Kai Barham[bn]		Carl the Collector	USA/ Canada	[359]
	Lotta	Maddy McIlwain[bo]
2024	Komori Michito	Bando Ryota [ja]		Light of My Lion	Japan	[361]
2024	Fok Bo-lok	Mason Fung[bp]	Forensic Heroes VI: Redemption [zh]	Forensic Heroes	Hong Kong	[362]
2025	Patience Evans	Ella Maisy Purvis	All Episodes	Patience	UK adapted from the French television series Astrid et Raphaëlle	[363]

Theater

Year	Character	Play	Playwright	Country	Ref.
1955	Dame Edna Everage	Various stage and television productions	Barry Humphries	Australia	[364][365]
1997	"Spoonface" Steinberg	Spoonface Steinberg	Lee Hall	England	[366]
2015	Adhvik	Chains: Love Stories of Shadows	AK Srikanth	India	[367]
2017	Luke	Mosquitoes	Lucy Kirkwood	England	[368]
2019	Lyle Masterson[bq]	Albireo	Annahis Basmadjian	Canada	[369][370]
2019	Laurence	All in a Row	Alex Oates	England	[371][372]
2023	Various	How to Dance in Ohio	Rebecca Greer Melocik (book & lyrics), Jacob Yandura (music)	USA	[373]

Video games

Year	Character	Actor(s)	Video game	Country	Notes	Ref.
2001	Charlie Kane's unnamed son	Ian Axness	Twisted Metal Black	USA		[374][375]
2005	Jade (The Indigo Child)	n/a; silent	Fahrenheit	France		[376]
2005	Murky	Tatiana Vesyolkina	Pathologic	Russia	Also appears in Pathologic 2	[377]
2007	Dr. Brigid Tenenbaum	Anne Bobby	BioShock	USA/ Australia	Also appears in BioShock 2, BioShock 2: Minerva's Den, and is referenced in BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea.	[378][379]
2007	Simone Cole	Michelle Specht	Clive Barker's Jericho	Spain/ USA		[380]
2010	David Archer	Jesse Gervais	Mass Effect 2: Overlord	Canada	Also appears in Mass Effect 3	[381]
2011	River Wyles	n/a; game does not feature voice acting	To the Moon	Canada		[382]
	Isabelle
2012	Amy	Kriss Logan (grunts)	Amy	France		[383][384]
2012	Patricia Tannis	Colleen Clinkenbeard	Borderlands 2	USA		[385][386]
2014	Cole	James Norton	Dragon Age: Inquisition	Canada		[387][388]
2014	Drake of Blades	Arianna Ratner	The Elder Scrolls Online	USA		[389]
2015	Marius "Jäger" Streicher	Michael Sinterniklaas	Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege	Canada		[390]
2016	Symmetra	Anjali Bhimani	Overwatch	USA		[391][392][393][394]
2016	Josh Sauchak	Jonathan Dubsky	Watch Dogs 2	Canada		[395][396]
2017	Rell	Stefan Martello	Warframe	Canada		[397][398]
2017	Gin Ibushi	n/a; game does not feature voice acting	Your Turn To Die	Japan		[399]
2019	Wattson	Justine Huxley	Apex Legends	USA		[400]
2024	Aurora	Emeri Chase	League of Legends	USA		[401]
2024	Moses Murphy	Blu Allen	Life Is Strange: Double Exposure	USA		[402]

Other

Year	Character	Actor(s)	Franchise	Medium	Country	Ref.
2011	Michael Falk	John Cariani	The Onion	Satirical news, online videos	USA	[403]
2019	Ayda Aguefort	Brennan Lee Mulligan	Dimension 20	Actual play	USA	[404][405][406]
2022	Twyla Boogeyman	Kayla Cromer (TV series),[at] Tangina Stone (singing voice)	Monster High	Toys/Animated Series	USA	[407][408]
2022	Jiang Dong-ping	Peng Haoqin (voice)	Unlocking Music	Web series	Taiwan	[409]
2023	Asteria	n/a[br]	Dungeons & Dragons	Tabletop role-playing game	USA	[410]
2023	Shuai Jiamo	Zhang Ruoyun	Under The Microscope	Web series	China	[411]

See also

• Autism and LGBTQ identities
• Autism in popular culture
• Autism in Television
• List of fictional characters with disabilities
• List of films about autism

Notes

1. Labelle is autistic herself.^[11]
2. Jacques is self-diagnosed autistic.^[14]
3. Franklin is autistic herself.^[19]
4. Dooley is autistic herself.^[21]
5. Ivany is autistic himself.^[37]
6. Mitic is autistic herself.^[56]
7. Clark is autistic themself.^[71]
8. Narrator Barry Humphries was autistic himself.^[79]
9. Reed is autistic himself.^[87]
10. Sanchez-Velez is autistic himself.^[104]
11. Bandy is autistic herself.^[129]
12. Director and co-writer Sia was diagnosed with autism herself following its release.^[133] Autistic actress Tig Notaro also appears in the film.^[134]
13. Burghardt is autistic herself.^[141]
14. Fitzgerald is autistic himself.^[142]
15. Stup is autistic herself.^[166]
16. Angleberger is autistic himself.^[185]
17. Stentz is autistic himself.^[196]
18. Smale is autistic herself.^[199]
19. Foyle is autistic herself.^[203]
20. Duyvis is autistic herself.^[207]
21. Solomon is autistic themself.^[208]
22. Hoang was diagnosed with autism herself following her daughter's diagnosis; this influenced the development of The Kiss Quotient and her subsequent books.^[212]
23. Drews is autistic herself.^[214]
24. Bonnello is autistic himself.^[217]
25. Kapit is autistic herself.
26. McNicoll is autistic herself.^[221]
27. Kerr is autistic herself.^[232]
28. Ryan is autistic herself.^[224]
29. Vaught is autistic herself.^[227]
30. Hibbert is autistic herself.^[231]
31. White is autistic himself.^[234]
32. Reyes is autistic themself.^[237]
33. Tingle is autistic himself.^[239]
34. Lloyd-Barlow is autistic herself.^[240]
35. Maxwell Atoms, creator of both series, is autistic himself.
36. Series co-creator Jorge R. Gutierrez is autistic himself.
37. Series creator Dan Harmon is self-diagnosed autistic.^[264]
38. Robertson is autistic himself.
39. The series features an entirely autistic voice cast and writing team.^[298]
40. Storyboard artist Sam Syzmanski is autistic himself and played a pivotal role in Entrapta's development.^[301] Merit Leighton, who voiced the character of Frosta, is also autistic herself.^[302]
41. Croft is autistic herself.
42. Grant is autistic himself.^[305]
43. Blonstein is autistic herself^[309]
44. Plank is autistic himself^[312]
45. One of the show's three writers is autistic. Autistic actor Hugo Horiot plays a neurotypical character in the episode "La Mort et Compagnie".^[314]
46. Cromer is autistic herself.^[319]
47. Warner is autistic himself.^[320]
48. Thomas, who also created the series, is autistic himself.^[321]
49. Yionoulis is autistic himself.^[324]
50. Thomas-Bruce is autistic himself.^[328]
51. Argento is autistic herself.^[331]
52. Glassman is autistic himself.^[335]
53. Rutecki is autistic himself.^{[citation needed]}
54. Pien is autistic herself.^[337]
55. Series creator Hamish Steele is autistic himself.^[338]
56. Both Smith^[341] and Garcia^[342] are autistic themselves.
57. Hayden is autistic herself.
58. Dodson is autistic himself.^[345]
59. Ferreira is autistic himself.^[348]
60. Blue is autistic herself.^[352]
61. Gidlow is autistic herself.^[352]
62. Purvis is autistic herself.^[352][353]
63. Storrie is autistic herself.^[354]
64. Cromer is autistic herself
65. Koleosho is autistic himself.^[357]
66. Barham is autistic himself, and the show employs multiple autistic writers.^[359]
67. McIlwain is autistic herself.^[360]
68. Fung is autistic himself.^[362]
69. Sam Fraser, the actor, is autistic himself.
70. Designer Makenzie De Armas is autistic herself.^[410]