VN with an autistic protagonist/heroine?

[MIUUZICK]

Already read Clannad.
Any recommendation?

[onorub]

Katawa Shoujo has an implied autistic heroine, but it's up for interpretation.

[Zakamutt]

Seconding katawa shoujo for heroine; also there is an autistic heroine in Swan Song but it's not really a character route romance game if you want that.
You could make a case for Rin from Little Busters. There's also this, but god knows I haven't finished reading it and maybe my headcanon is wrong, plus you're probably a pleb so rip https://vndb.org/v10763.

For protagonists the protag in the book Blindsight comes immediately to mind but that's not a vn www

[Canicheslayer]

Maybe Chaos;Head's protagonist 

[Asonn]

Almost all heroines in any general VN have to be autistic to date most protags.  

[kokoro]

P much everything in this medium. You have to be autistic to like it too.

[Clephas]

As a serious answer:

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Cross Channel (protagonist is not autistic - he is something else - , but one of the heroines is)

Grisaia no Kajitsu (Makina)

Shuffle (Primula)

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Devils Devel Concept (Mei, though all the heroines are a bit 'off')

Futagoza no Paradox (Tesla)

Haruka ni Aogi, Uruwashi no (Tonoko)

Yurikago yori Tenshi Made (Aria and Ume)

Semiramis no Tenbin (Fumika, also my second favorite heroine in this game... has the single best line in the game as well)

Natsuiro Recipe (Yuzu and the protagonist, to some extent show mild symptoms)

Sakura Nikagetsu (some of the heroines show signs of autism, but considering the theme of the story is the protagonist 'fixing' them, this might be offensive, lol)

Abyss Homicide Club (protagonist.  I'm uncertain to which degree this quality is native to him and how much is his experiences and psychological problems, but he does show the signs on a regular basis)

Para-sol (Miu)

Yoru Meguru, Bokura no Maigo Kyoushitsu (Kina is a very straightforward autistic girl who almost tips into Downs Syndrome areas)

Edit:  Keep in mind, none of these characters are openly diagnosed as autistic by a doctor, call themselves, or are indicated by others to be autistic.  Rather, I'm essentially using the qualities of 'low social intelligence, inability or fundamental unwillingness to adapt to changing social situations, etc'.  I also draw the line where I think the condition was created by circumstance.  Tbh, I had to cut this list down by about thirty titles because I concluded the heroines and/or protagonists in question simply displayed surface qualities or became that way due to circumstance and/or experience. 

 

[mitchhamilton]

i was gonna suggest grisaia no kajitsu but say michiru is autistic.

[Clephas]

20 minutes ago, mitchhamilton said:

i was gonna suggest grisaia no kajitsu but say michiru is autistic.

I dunno if she falls into the category... Michiru seems to be just an airhead, lol.

[Ramaladni]

I think @Asonn and @kokoro are on point.

[supercar]

I'm actually autistic (Asperger's) so I find this an interesting question.

As said before, Katawa Shoujo has an implied autistic heroine, Swan Song has one too (she is "lower" functioning), and it could be argued that a certain love interest from If My Heart Had Wings is on the spectrum. Here is why I think so:

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Amane has hyperfocus, is socially awkward, knows a lot about specialist topics (autistic people often have niche interests) and she is a genius (not everyone on the spectrum is super intelligent but there are some "prodigies").

I don't think the protagonist from Chaos;Head is autistic. He probably has a mental illness.

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At the very least, schizophrenia.

I find him similar to Tatsuhiro from Welcome to NHK.

Edited April 9, 2020 by supercar