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10 Mar 2015, 11:17 am

The Voyage Home



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10 Mar 2015, 1:17 pm

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The Voyage Home


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10 Mar 2015, 5:04 pm

how many other people here have listen to "the two sides of leonard nimoy"? I think what producer Charles grean did was magical.



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11 Mar 2015, 12:54 am

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Spock would be the ambassador to Wrong Planet since many autistics and aspies identify as being Spock like.


Better Spock than Sheldon Cooper!



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02 Apr 2015, 8:11 pm

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Spock would be the ambassador to Wrong Planet since many autistics and aspies identify as being Spock like.


Better Spock than Sheldon Cooper!


I think of Sheldon as having moderate Autism and Leonard as having moderate Aspergers.

In honesty I think of Leonard as representing the best of us since he's intelligent, likable, and honestly baffled by the madhouse planet we live on.

He also can boast no scientific achievement but can express love. :mrgreen:



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02 Apr 2015, 8:16 pm

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I think of Sheldon as having moderate Autism and Leonard as having moderate Aspergers.

Just curious, I always thought of Leonard as just a bit of a "geek". I would have never guessed he was on the spectrum.



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02 Apr 2015, 10:42 pm

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I think of Sheldon as having moderate Autism and Leonard as having moderate Aspergers.

Just curious, I always thought of Leonard as just a bit of a "geek". I would have never guessed he was on the spectrum.


Leonard has his clueless moments.



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02 Apr 2015, 11:07 pm

To be honest, when I first tuned into The Big Bang Theory, I had figured that all the male characters had had some degree of Asperger's.


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03 Apr 2015, 3:23 pm

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To be honest, when I first tuned into The Big Bang Theory, I had figured that all the male characters had had some degree of Asperger's.


Odd I only think the two have it.

Howard is just ugly and never had a normal home life and Raj just seems to be horribly shy and naive.



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03 Apr 2015, 7:54 pm

ehymw wrote:
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To be honest, when I first tuned into The Big Bang Theory, I had figured that all the male characters had had some degree of Asperger's.


Odd I only think the two have it.

Howard is just ugly and never had a normal home life and Raj just seems to be horribly shy and naive.


Actually, the real life person who Sheldon had been based on had been very like Sheldon in every way, except that he needed to be drunk in order to talk to women. As they thought they were piling too many autistic traits on Sheldon, they introduced Raj to have a character with shyness induced mutism. In that sense, I see Raz as being on the spectrum, while I think Howard is quirky enough to be one of us.


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04 Apr 2015, 7:26 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
ehymw wrote:
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To be honest, when I first tuned into The Big Bang Theory, I had figured that all the male characters had had some degree of Asperger's.


Odd I only think the two have it.

Howard is just ugly and never had a normal home life and Raj just seems to be horribly shy and naive.


Actually, the real life person who Sheldon had been based on had been very like Sheldon in every way, except that he needed to be drunk in order to talk to women. As they thought they were piling too many autistic traits on Sheldon, they introduced Raj to have a character with shyness induced mutism. In that sense, I see Raz as being on the spectrum, while I think Howard is quirky enough to be one of us.


???

Wasn't Raj and his muteness introduced in the first episode?



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04 Apr 2015, 9:34 pm

ehymw wrote:
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ehymw wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
To be honest, when I first tuned into The Big Bang Theory, I had figured that all the male characters had had some degree of Asperger's.


Odd I only think the two have it.

Howard is just ugly and never had a normal home life and Raj just seems to be horribly shy and naive.


Actually, the real life person who Sheldon had been based on had been very like Sheldon in every way, except that he needed to be drunk in order to talk to women. As they thought they were piling too many autistic traits on Sheldon, they introduced Raj to have a character with shyness induced mutism. In that sense, I see Raz as being on the spectrum, while I think Howard is quirky enough to be one of us.


???

Wasn't Raj and his muteness introduced in the first episode?


Yes, he was. My point was, Raj was invented as a character to give Sheldon some slack. But as I had pointed out, the real life person who Sheldon was based on was sort of a combination of Sheldon and Raj.


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05 Apr 2015, 1:06 am

All of the male characters, and Amy, are aspies, or the like. That was always my take.



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05 Apr 2015, 8:07 am

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All of the male characters, and Amy, are aspies, or the like. That was always my take.


I agree. Especially about Amy.


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04 May 2015, 9:54 pm

Another cast member from the original series has died
Grace Lee Whitney (Yeoman Rand)


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04 May 2015, 10:41 pm

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Another cast member from the original series has died
Grace Lee Whitney (Yeoman Rand)


I saw that today. She was hardly as famous as Nimoy, Shatner, or Teckei, as she had been fired during the first series for her alcoholism, but she was still very noticeable in that very, very short dress, and she will be missed.


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