The writer of the Fantastic Beasts series, J.K. Rowling has never publicly stated that
Eddie Redmayne Says Newt Scamander in 'Fantastic Beasts' Is Autistic.
Newt Scamander isn't without a superpower of his own, he is a wizard after all, but his autism, be it Asperger's Syndrome or something else, is not connected to it in any way. The fact that Newt's apparent autism isn't remarked on in the film is actually quite fitting for the time period of the film.
He hunches, seems skittish around people, and often avoids eye contact. All of this anti-social behavior falls in line with Newt's introverted personality, but one Reddit user has a different theory. Newt acts this way because he approaches people the same way he approaches animals.
Now we have Newt being coded as neurodivergent without any actual representation.
Redmayne believes that Scamander has Asperger's but would not have been diagnosed because the term was not widely used during his lifetime. It's important to note that Asperger's is now considered to be part of the autism spectrum and is not a term that is used on its own anymore.
He usually tilts his head down and hunches a bit. Newt doesn't act like this because he's an oddball. His nature as a magizoologist is just accustomed to avoiding displays of dominance when approaching a magical creature. So he uses his body language to convey that he is harmless.
At Queenie Goldstein and Jacob Kowalski's wedding, Newt Scamander finds himself confiding in both Theseus and Queenie about his feelings for Tina. They both tell him the same thing: Tina Goldstein loves him irregardless of his insecurities around his asexuality and ASD (of which he has no labels for).
He's Luna Lovegood's grandfather-in-law
Newt's full name is Newton Artemis Fido Scamander.
While Newt ends up with Tina, it wasn't without some drama that he got there, most of which was caused by his youthful love for Leta Lestrange, who had since become engaged to Newt's brother Theseus.
Credence, 24, discovered autism at 18
Even after I came out as trans something was missing. Finding out I was autistic made everything clearer.
According to Pottermore, Scamander was born in 1897, and by the time the third novel takes place it's 1994, putting the textbook author at a grand old age of... 97. Old, but just about feasible that he'd be alive and visiting Hogwarts.
Newton Artemis Fido "Newt" Scamander is a half-blood or pure blood wizard who is a framed magizoologist and the main protagonist of the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them franchise.
Famous actors with autism
Here are a few examples: Mickey Rowe (the first openly autistic actor to play Christopher Boone in Simon Stephens' Tony Award–winning play “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”) Dan Aykroyd. Daryl Hannah.
“The reason he loves Newt is that Newt loves beasts and I think he thinks he's a beast.” The actor continued: “I think he thinks he's dark, that he's seen and done things that he wishes he hadn't and he's constantly pulling himself back on the right moral side.”
Initially, Newt Scamander was only mentioned in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as the author of the book Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, which was used as a textbook for Care of Magical Creatures by Harry Potter and his classmates.
No, Newt Scamander is not Hagrid's father.
J.K. Rowling did not explicitly write the character of Luna Lovegood as a person with Asperger's. But because she is a good writer, she created a character with a distinct personality that is also familiar in many ways.
Eddie Redmayne himself has said in interviews that he feels that Newt probably has Asperger's syndrome based on how JK Rowling described Newt's mannerisms to him, but would have unlikely been diagnosed as the films take place in the 1920's long before Kanner and Asperger first published their work on autism.
Rowling then took to Twitter Monday morning to answer a few questions about the pair's past relationship, admitting, "Albus Dumbledore is fond of Newt Scamander for the same reasons that I am fond of Newt Scamander. You're welcome."
After a careful investigation, the user suggested that it may have been Alison's makeup that made the difference. They added, “[It] really changes her face in my opinion; she's still beautiful if not more so.” More research proves that Alison was pregnant while filming, which could also explain things.
As Scamander obtained his O.W.L.s, not only did he graduate from Hogwarts, he was also a qualified wizard. This means he is able to keep his wand, even though he was an underage wizard.
Newt was terrified of working in an office, mainly because society basically tried to groom him into working in one.