Interesting thought - Could Carter have had Asperger's Syndrome?

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Just watching "Get Fit or Go Fight" on the DVD, season 5, and Carter misses such obvious social cues. Guessing Klink's 59, then when klink's upset thinking that he guessed 10 years too low? From that tone of voice, I could tell why Klink was upset and I don't have good hearing.)

It's not the only time, either - remember how he kept being confused in "Carter Turns Traitor," asking why the guys had to kill him? He just didn't get that they were just going to pretend. And, there were plenty of other times when he'd just ramble on about stuff not understanding that nobody was interested.

And yet, he had that trait of having one thing that totally fascinated him - explosives. He could rattle off everything about them.

It's not a certainty, but being handicapped myself, I tend to have more sympathy toward poeple like that, and notice things like that. It would make sense, with how he acted when he was being a German, too. Becasue you see, someone with Asperger's can be very good if given a script; if they know exactly what to do. And, in Carter's mind that's just "act really loud, be obnoxious, and threaten to send people to the Russian front." he can go over that stuff in his head easily beforehand, just what he wants to say. And yet, when he's just in casual conversation, like with Klink in the first example, or with the others in Barracks 2, sometimes if thigns are a bit out of the norm, he can get confused and not know what to say. This is why people with Asperger's often enjoy the stage. They have a script and don't have to pay attention to the things they try to read but can't as well like tone of voice, body language, etc.)

Just a thought I had; dont' know if anyone else cares, but if it confused people how he could be kind of different, that's why. True, it doesn't *look* scripted when he does it, but he'd still have a general rule in mind to help him.

(And, even then, if he's not acting really loud and all, it's true he does have trouble when places like Leadingham...which he called Hamleading and Ingleadham.)