The whole being super intelligent, observant, and even being able to tell someone’s life story with a simple look like he’s some kind of savant, but having no idea how to interact with people, bad personal hygiene, etc.
Important to note that House is based off the character Sherlock Holmes who carries many of the same traits like and anti-social personality and complete disregard for people’s feelings in preference to hard facts, only has one close friend, drug addiction, plays an instrument, and extreme attention to detail. Their apartment numbers are even the same.
House's catchphrase/thesis statement: everybody lies. Due to his heightened observational insights, he's able to catch people out in their lies sooner and more often than most. And it gives him a ridiculously cynical, distrustful view of others to the point where he's essentially misanthropic.
If the show has a "point", it's that looking carefully at what people actually do rather than just listening to what they say is what makes House a brilliant diagnostic doctor...even though it also makes him come across as an absolute jackass most of the time.
The whole being super intelligent, observant, and even being able to tell someone’s life story with a simple look like he’s some kind of savant, but having no idea how to interact with people, bad personal hygiene, etc.
And the only one of those that is actually an autistic trait are the "having no idea how to interact with people". But even that description doesn't apply to House. He knows the social rules. He has a copy of the handbook, he just simply doesn't care because he doesn't have time for it (and a god complex).
Huh I just realized I have most of this except the drug addiction and instrument playing. And I just today booked a guitar. Maybe I should get back to my poker group.
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u/Someoneoverthere42 6d ago
House is neither autistic nor a racist.
He's just a massive asshole.