Quiz time

I did something similar, after two written tests, a 'scenario' to solve, in the second of two interviews - I also didn't get the job.

But it might help you if you're lucky. One of my friends got a job as a railway engineer because he looked like one of them, one of bearded, tattooed motorcycle riders. I'm happy for him. 

It might be my only chance of getting a job, to be lucky like that

This, I find, is a universal problem with NT people: their arbitrariness & their self-righteousness. You can bet that if the interviewer happened to be a Warhammer player, then not only would they miraculously cease to find your hobby 'strange'  but, also, you'd likely have got the job. So, a ridiculous fluke of common interest - or its absence - shapes a career and a life. Such arbitrary unprofessionalism would not be tolerated in an autistic person.

I did once disclose during interview that I enjoy playing Warhammer Battle, and I didn't get a job

I mostly read non fiction books so dont really have a favourite fictional book character

For film and TV charchters, Sam Tyler in Life on Mars is the main one, that feeling of landing in an alien world you dont belong in or understand but trying to feel alive and feel things, that I really identify with

I once was asked in a job interview which film characther I most identified with and I said Will Smith in I robot, because he thought differently to everyone else and he could see whats coming and no one would believe him but he was proved right. I didnt get the job

For my 8 year old self, the answer would have been obvious, Jim Hawkins from 'Treasure Island', by Robert Louis Stevenson. Perhaps it is still true. 

Me. I wrote a book a few years ago from my degree! Never wanted to be anyone else.

The problem for me is that most stories have an element of struggle to give them a sense of drama.  I would not want to try to live through the life experiences of most of the book characters I've read.  Even Peter Pan is strangely tragic.

I don't think I'd even be the fuchsia fairy in my profile pic because my feet would get cold. XD 

I actually quite like being me, as hard as it's been.  And being someone else would be a huge change that I struggle to get my head around.

1st sceptic  him and Judas were the only apostles avoiding getting brainwashed until the end. Kudos for them

Doubting Thomas. Good enough to be a disciple, even though he asks the sort of questions I do..

Daneel killed googols of people, well, he sort of gave orders, but they would die anyway looking from his timeless perspective

Interesting question. Possibly Piranesi (Matthew) from Suzanna Clarke's novel. I envy his solitude and his intimacy with his environment. He knows the house and its statues so completely, although as it appears to be infinite there is always more of it to explore. He does have a hard life though, in terms of getting enough food and other basic supplies, so that puts me off. I half fell in love with him while reading the book as I was attracted to his methodical recording of every detail of his life. Perhaps I'd like to live there with him, each in our own wing, occasionally crossing paths?

I feel it's important to encourage myself in pursuit of understanding others. It's too easy to do that with immediately sympathetic characters (Margaret in Sarah Waters' novel 'Affinity', for instance), so I try to understand more difficult cases. However, as an autist, I do wonder if my understanding of certain villainous characters is original or simply flawed (e.g. Jennet, the villain of Susan Hill's 'The Woman in Black', is not to me merely outright evil, for all her terrible vengeance - *her* suffering during her lifetime apparently counts for little or nothing).