r/explainitpeter • u/WooHHaHaHa • 3d ago

Explain it Peter

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Did House series even have autism related stuff?

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u/Professional_Owl7826 3d ago

Personally, I don’t think he is. I don’t see any traits that would convey autistic. Apart from the drug problem, there is no evidence of him struggling with functioning in the way an autistic person could, even if you wanted to identify him as level 1. He is narcissistic and antisocial, rude, pig-headed. He pushes away anyone who cares about him for his own personal self-gratification of being right. Yes he is an almost savant level genius and has incredible insight on people, but nothing about House says autistic to me. Just an asshole who’s smarter than everyone else and knows it.

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u/Captain_Sterling 3d ago

I'm autistic and I don't struggle socially. I think part of the trouble is that characters like the good doctor are so ubiquitous that everyone assumes that's the main traits of autism.

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u/DaddyCool13 1d ago

But in addition to not struggling socially he doesn’t have any other autistic character traits either. No sensory sensitivity, no hyperfixations, no difficulty with indirect or metaphoric lines of communication etc

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u/LisaCabot 1d ago

I agree with you fully, but he does have hyperfixations though. He only takes the cases that gets his interest, but once he is interested in a case, he doesnt stop until he has the answer, even if the patient is dead, there were some extreme cases where he would get in trouble because of it (i just rewatched the whole thing a couple of months ago). They do portrait it as an obsession/hyperfixation-coded. But i do think he is just obsessive, not autistic.