Steris Harms (Mistborn)

Steris Harms is a character in the Mistborn series of fantasy novels by Brandon Sanderson.

Character creation
The character is partly based on friends of the author. He also wanted to write a more realistic autistic character; Adien, an earlier autistic character, is described as a more Hollywood or pop culture representation.

Autism
Steris is confirmed to be autistic by the author.