Sheldon Cooper. Aspie, or offensive parody?

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I have noticed a lot of Aspie characteristics in Sheldon.

People tend to comment that I seem "Sheldon-y". I've gotten that around 15 times. Sheldon and Amy Farrah Fowler are basically the only parts of that show that I can tolerate, but I've stopped watching it because it conflicts with Community. I do sometimes like to watch clips of Sheldon on youtube, e.g. the friendship algorithm, because many of them are quite entertaining.

I however don't think Amy Farrah Fowler has Aspergers. Amy NEEDS to have friends, and even though she's odd, she likes to party and socialise. Sheldon doesn't. He'd rather be left alone at some points (most of the time) and has this OCD and stuff which makes him pretty much the only aspie character in the show.

Wow, so much butthurt in this thread.

The best part about the Sheldon character is I can laugh at myself! I share some of his bad aspie traits (yes, bad) and the show does a great service by parodying them.

If you can't laugh at yourself you're going to have a miserable life.

I think the creators won't say if he is asperger for 2 things:

1) The character would be limited by the diagnosis, they would always have to stick to reality.
2) It would be bad for aspergers, people would generalize and make more jokes and bullying and aspies would considere the show offensive.

It's better this way, so it can be funny and not offensive, and you can feel identified if you want.

Its a cute show.

The Khardashian Sisters have done more to damage the image of Armenian Americans than Sheldon has done to damage the image of aspies!

I haven't watched it. But I can just say in general that I like jokes about *my* problems, maybe because I didn't choose to have them so I dislike the labelling, and the social justice hypocrisy from usually able people which seems to come along with it,

CBS.com has several episodes on their site. You should check it out.

I will! TYSM.

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Hmm, nevermind, not available in my region. :/

Interesting side note... Last night on a re-run of Big Bang I saw my first ever TV ad about Aspergers on Australian television. Surely not a coincidence in the broadcast slot, but not really sure how I feel about that.

I don't see what the big deal is, yes Sheldon gets made fun of but Penny, Raj, Howard and Leonard get made fun of too. Are the shots taken at Penny's intelligence by Sheldon less offensive to dumb white women or the stereotype of the jewish momma's boy any less offensive to jewish people? By saying "this is not ok to make a joke about" you are in fact creating a separation rather than destroying a separation.

By any objective standard (if there can even be one in this case), Leonard is the most repulsive. I'm kinda surprised they get away with THAT one in our overly-senstive politically correct society.

The best thing about the show is Sheldon is practically the star, and pulls it off warts and all (figuratively speaking). I think some people on this thread don't like the character because he's a believable, may I say, accurate portrayal of an aspie. How is this bad?

I don't know how it came to be, but the pressure to conform in this society has all but made eccentricities an abomination in the eyes of the everyman. This isn't some reality show where nerds are tied to a pillory for public ridicule. This is a smartly written situation comedy with fully developed eccentric characters which everyone can identify with or appreciate to some level. If I met the creators of the show I'd shake their hands!

Yes! "Brilliant" is the right word too!

I heard good things about Community, but haven't come across it yet either.