Each of the following is a story featuring at least one prominent autistic character.
(I’m adding to this list as I go so feel free to comment with your suggestions. And if you’ve written a book, comic, or manga with an autistic character that’s middle grade, Young Adult, or New Adult + please let me know!)
📖 Means I’ve read it
📺 Means I’ve watched it (show)
🎞️ Means I’ve watched it (film)
😸 Means it was created by a friend
Live Action Shows
Atypical — (Sam Gardner) — TV show 📺
Bones — (Temperance “Bones” Brennan) — TV show 📺
Criminal Minds — (Dr. Spencer Reid) — TV show 📺
Extraordinary Attorney Woo — (Woo Young-woo) — TV show 📺
Star Trek: Discovery — (Sylvia Tilly & Spock) — TV show 📺
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — (Spock) — TV show 📺
Anime, Manga & Light Novels
Appare-Ranman! — (Appare Sorano) — anime 📺
BLUELOCK — (Yoichi Isagi & Meguru Bachira) — manga, novels, anime, & live-action film 📺
Bungo Stray Dogs — (Ranpo Edogawa) — manga, anime & movies 📺 🎞️
Death Note — (L) — manga, light novels & anime 📺
Dr.STONE — (Senku Ishigami) — manga & anime 📺
Free! – Iwatobi Swam Club — (Haruka Nanase) — anime & movie 📺
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End — (Frieren) — novels, manga & anime 📺
Given — (Mafuyu Satō) — manga & anime 📖 📺
Haikyu!! — (Shoyo Hinata [AuDHD], Tobio Kageyama, Kenma Kozume, Wakatoshi Ushijima “Ushiwaka”) — manga, anime & movie 📺 *This show is full of neurodivergent characters
Kemono Jihen — (Kabane Kusaka) — manga & anime 📺
Kochoki — (Nobunaga Oda) — anime 📺
Mashle: Magic and Muscles — (Mash Burnedead) — manga, novels & anime 📺
Mob Psycho 100 — (Shigeo “Mob” Kageyama) — web manga & anime 📺
My Hero Academia — (Shoto Todoroki & Mei Hatsume) — manga, anime & movies 📺 🎞️
Naruto Shippuden — (Sai) — manga, anime & movies 📺
Spy×Family — (Anya Forger & Yor Forger née Briar) — manga, light novels, anime, movie 📺 🎞️
The Case Study of Vanitas — (Noé Archiviste) — Manga & anime 📺
The Dawn of the Witch — (Saybil the Abyss Sorcerer) — manga, light novels & anime 📺
The Irregular at Magic High School — (Tatsuya Shiba) — web novel, light novels, manga & anime 📺
The Seven Deadly Sins — (Gowther the Sin of Lust) — manga, anime & movies 📺
Violet Evergarden — (Violet Evergarden) — light novels, anime & movie 📺 🎞️
Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun — (Iruma Suzuki, Alice/Arisu Asmodeus, Clara Valac) — manga & anime 📺 *This series is full of neurodivergent secondary characters
Western Animation & Comics
Lilo & Stitch — (Lilo) — animated movie, live-action movie & cartoon 📺 🎞️
The Mitchells vs. the Machines — (Aaron Mitchell) — animated movie 🎞️
Nimona — (Nimona) — animated movie & comic 🎞️
Novels & Novellas
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation — (Wei Wuxian/Ying & Lan Wangji/Zhan) — Danmei (light novels), manga, anime & live-action TV show (The Untamed) 📖📖 📺
How to Sell Your Blood and Fall in Love — (Dr. Clementine Hughes) — novel
In-Between — (Alicia) — novel 😸
NeurodiVeRse — (Jupiter J’nell) — novel 😸
The Flowered Blade — (Prince Silvyr Quilen) — novel 😸
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