That would be number 2.
Holmes doesn't accept more money than he needs to live for his work when he could easily command a fee of millions, he chooses his cases by their interest not by their ease or benefits, he does not socialise except for Watson and they seem to mainly socialise when working on a case, he lives alone in his flat without a partner, he is never seen to have a lover although he does fall in love.

Despite his cocaine addiction I think it's fair to say Holmes denies himself material satisfaction and abstains from the normal pleasures of life.
(Hippo_of_Doom, Tue 4 May 2010, 2:37, 2 replies)

True that. Especially considering his "addiction" usually disappears the moment he gets a new case which interests him.
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Tue 4 May 2010, 6:56, closed)

Sounds like the behaviour of an aspie to me.
To be fair to Guy Ritchie, what kind of person other than someone with Asperger's Syndrome has the kind of eye for small details that Holmes displays? No one I know.
(Vlad the Inhaler forgot his password, Tue 4 May 2010, 8:04, closed)

Not so much
I actually thought the film did a rather nice job of getting some elements of the stories in there, though I was unconvinced by RDJ as Holmes. Not tall and thin enough.

On the Aspergers bit though, it's pretty clear in the stories/novel that Holmes is capable of deep emotion and also of expressing it in times of need (The Three Garridebs spring to mind) and that his way of thinking and logicalness have been imposed on himself and he has trained himself. It never sounded like Aspergers to me, more like a sort of mania, or alternatively some sort of trauma
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 4 May 2010, 12:18, closed)