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* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'': The episode "Charlie X" featured a human child raised by incorporeal aliens who has no concept of how to interact with his fellow humans, especially women.
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'': The episode "Charlie X" featured a human child raised by incorporeal aliens who has no concept of how to interact with his fellow humans, especially women.
* Luke Smith from ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' is at a loss in social situations. Thankfully he becomes more sophisticated so as time goes on. After all, he's being raised in a "normal" high school environment and is a quick learner due to both his age and his genes.
* Luke Smith from ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' is at a loss in social situations. Thankfully he becomes more sophisticated so as time goes on. After all, he's being raised in a "normal" high school environment and is a quick learner due to both his age and his genes.
** He was grown by aliens: human but created to be a "Human Archetype" so that they could do tests on him He has the absorbed intelligence of the thousands of people but not their social skills.

He was grown by aliens: human but created to be a "Human Archetype" so that they could do tests on him He has the absorbed intelligence of the thousands of people but not their social skills.
* Charlie Crews in ''[[Life]]'', having spent the last twelve years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. The most common is his unfamiliarity with the things like cell phones and instant messaging.
* Charlie Crews in ''[[Life]]'', having spent the last twelve years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. The most common is his unfamiliarity with the things like cell phones and instant messaging.
* Walter Bishop in ''[[Fringe]]'' is awkward as a central character trait: he's locked up in a a mental institution, completely isolated from the world for the past seventeen years. And he is missing key parts of his brain - that he had ''someone else'' take out.
* Walter Bishop in ''[[Fringe]]'' is awkward as a central character trait: he's locked up in a a mental institution, completely isolated from the world for the past seventeen years. And he is missing key parts of his brain - that he had ''someone else'' take out.
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** Taking the above a step further, ''[[Big Brother]]'' had [[Ms. Fanservice|Bonnie Holt]], from Leicester, East Midlands, United Kingdom, who may or may not have [[Aspergers Syndrome]], but her behavior indicates traces of it, if the [[YouTube]] footage of her is anything to go by.
** Taking the above a step further, ''[[Big Brother]]'' had [[Ms. Fanservice|Bonnie Holt]], from Leicester, East Midlands, United Kingdom, who may or may not have [[Aspergers Syndrome]], but her behavior indicates traces of it, if the [[YouTube]] footage of her is anything to go by.
* Saga from ''[[Bron Broen]]'', an extreme [[By-The-Book Cop]] with no apparent understanding of jokes, unwritten laws or comforting lies. She refuses to promise a missing girl's relative that they'll find her alive, picks up a guy in a bar by asking [[Do You Want to Copulate?|if he wants to have sex]], and has no idea why her partner's weirded out when she {{spoiler|his eighteen-year-old son spends the night at her place. She doesn't even get why she should tell him they didn't actually have sex until a co-worker suggests it - at which point she explains in front of everyone.}}
* Saga from ''[[Bron Broen]]'', an extreme [[By-The-Book Cop]] with no apparent understanding of jokes, unwritten laws or comforting lies. She refuses to promise a missing girl's relative that they'll find her alive, picks up a guy in a bar by asking [[Do You Want to Copulate?|if he wants to have sex]], and has no idea why her partner's weirded out when she {{spoiler|his eighteen-year-old son spends the night at her place. She doesn't even get why she should tell him they didn't actually have sex until a co-worker suggests it - at which point she explains in front of everyone.}}



== Newspaper Comics ==
== Newspaper Comics ==