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Greg House, Sherlock Holmes, Sheldon Cooper, and Spock are all autistic or at least autistic-coded IMO. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds) and Temperance Brennan (Bones) also fit the bill. (I know Bones isn't a man, but still.) As an autistic person, I often find that we get the best autistic representation from TV shows where the writers claim the character isn't autistic, or at least didn't intentionally write them that way.
Yes ! I'm definitely aware of that - I remember the very first time I read the word "autistic" (a long time ago now lol) was in a YouTube comment about Sheldon ! He was my favorite fictional character at the time so it was eye-opening haha! I guess in this type of fictional characters that I listed there's two subtypes: autistic(-coded) and "too cool for feelings" aka repressed (like Roman from Succession, Loki from Marvel). ^^ And about the representation: I'm not autistic but I've heard from others that the actually-canon autistic characters aren't actually that great of a representation most of the time ("Atypical" comes to mind, though I personally liked the show I don't actually know how accurate it was), which is really unfortunate and I hope that changes ! And thanks for the two suggestions, I will keep them in mind ! :D
