matrixluver wrote:
Two smartarses on the opposite ends of the NT/Aspie continnuum. Here's the DSM-IV breakdown of Sheldon btw:
http://wasttime.blogspot.com/2009/11/ds ... eldon.html
It's not accurate though.
Sheldon does not manifest appropriate eye contact behavior. He fixedly gazes. Fixed gaze is specifically described in DSM-IV in the expanded text description (of AS) as being one of the possible manifestations of a failure to use eye contact to regulate expression.
Also, the need for help is what determines impairment, not whether or not the help is currently available. One is not autistic one week when no one is around to help, non-Autistic the next week if someone offers assistance, and Autistic again the following week if the helper gets bored of assisting and drifts away. The need for this kind of help and assistance in his daily life constitutes clinically significant impairment. Getting the daily help and assistance one needs mitigates the negative impacts of impairment, it does not magic away the impairment that causes the support to be needed.
He is also arguably persistently preoccupied with parts.
Sheldon is my favourite in the series because his character is hilarious.