The Murderbot Diaries Series by Martha Wells
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The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells, is a series concerning a violent, self-hacking cyborg searching for the meaning of life. All Systems Red, the fir...

Are there any other books where the main character seems to be neurospicy?

Also I highly recommend the series to anyone who likes SciFi. The books are really short so easy to finish even for slow readers or “need to read that page 5 times” readers. And audiobooks exist too!

  • TheBiscuitLout@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Not a book, but one of the Daniels has said that Everything, Everywhere, All At Once is based on his experience of having all 80 of the HDs.

    Also, having written that like that reminded me that there’s a character in the Dogman kids graphic novel called 80hd

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I can’t be convinced that the main character of Lucky Wander Boy isn’t autistic, considering the obsessions he has and the ritual he performs at one point.

    Great, but very weird book about a writer who likes retro video games trying to find an arcade machine of his youth that may even have mystical powers.

  • TheWorstMailman@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    While I don’t think that a main character has ADHD specifically, The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson deals with various mental health problems. I will say that Stormlight is on a whole different scale though. Looks like the first book is about the length of the whole murderbot series and there are 4 books out currently with another coming in December

  • BluesF@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    A Closed And Common Orbit - the main character, Lovelace, is not explicitly neurodivergent (she’s an AI), but there are so many parallels with the experiences of neurodivergent people it’s worth a mention. Probably more relevant to autism than ADHD. And, unrelated, lots of parallels to trans experiences if that’s interesting to you.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.socialEnglish
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    10 months ago

    A lot of Neal Stephenson, but especially Cryptonomicon, The Baroque series, and Anathem… though with the last it’s not so much the narrator as a lot of other main characters.

  • SwearingRobin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Percy Jackson is written as having ADHD, because the writer’s son had it. I liked it, but maybe the “it’s actually a super power” thing might rub some people the wrong way.

      • TheBiscuitLout@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        My life might generally be a train wreck, but god damn am I good at emergencies, especially the “we’ve turned a truck over in a silly place” “The digger’s half sink in the lake” kind. The wheels constantly come off things like keeping my house from being a war zone, but when the actual wheels come off, I’m actually fitting on all cylinders for once. It’s a kind of crap trade off, but I’m not sure how much I’d want to change it!

        • xkforce@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          10 months ago

          If you have ADHD, emergencies are common because the dopamine to motivate doing stuff isnt there so the extra norepinephrine from procrastination’s consequences finally brings your norepinephrine levels “high enough” to be “normal” (its usually below normal for us) while an average person is going to be swimming in it enough to be paralysed. So the same reason that we tend to procrastinate is also why we tend to be chill when everyone else is freaking out. Not only are we used to those scenarios, our brains are ironically, the only ones that are going to be “normal” during those emergencies.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
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        10 months ago

        So like being an X-Man without Professor Xavier’s School for the Gifted? 🤔

        Having laser focus but at unpredictable times still seems more of a super power than Rogue’s ability to kill anything she touches.

        • xkforce@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Cyclops and rogue came to mind first yeah. Or imagine xavier having no control over his powers, just turns people into cabbages on accident. Magneto accidentally crushing cars as he walks past them or pulling the pacemakers out of people etc.

      • angrystego@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        To me the most interesting superpowers are those that come with big disadvantages and are hard for the hero to control. It makes good stories. In my life, I prefer simple happy stories though.