Adult Autism Books

Just to be clear, do you mean 'characters showing unacknowledged autistic traits', like Sherlock Holmes? Also, by adult, do you mean adult in the sense of mortgages and income tax, or adult in the sense of sexual?

Thank you for your reply. Yes, I mean ‘characters showing unacknowledged autistic traits.’

In terms of adult, I specifically mean adult classic texts (i.e. not children’s books). I am particularly looking for female characters who are portrayed as being ‘mad’ but are likely autistic. 

Not a woman, but Silas Marner in the book of the same name, by George Eliot, strikes me as somewhat. autistic. Perhaps the woman the main character in Charlotte Bronte's 'The Professor' marries seems a little autistic. More modern novels, the main character in the Japanese novel 'Convenience Store Woman', who, if memory serves, takes on a male lodger to deflect all the social pressures to get a boyfriend, which is some heavy lifting masking-wise. Of course Lisbeth Salander in Stieg Larsson's books.

Not a woman, but Silas Marner in the book of the same name, by George Eliot, strikes me as somewhat. autistic. Perhaps the woman the main character in Charlotte Bronte's 'The Professor' marries seems a little autistic. More modern novels, the main character in the Japanese novel 'Convenience Store Woman', who, if memory serves, takes on a male lodger to deflect all the social pressures to get a boyfriend, which is some heavy lifting masking-wise. Of course Lisbeth Salander in Stieg Larsson's books.

Thank you very much; this is really helpful