[ SECRET POST #2724 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2724 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Ambiguously autistic characters are common in media. Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory, the various modern Sherlock Holmses, Abed from Community*. The writers get to make jokes at the expense of autistic people, but still go "nuh-uh, he's not autistic, we're just laughing at the weirdo." So yeah. This is an issue. If they ever confirmed anyone as autistic, they'd have to respect us and we can't have that.
*Abed was treated ok by the writing if I remember right, but I don't think they ever called him autistic.

[(Anonymous)]

Sheldon from Big Bang is a common character type often found in traditional, multi-camera sitcoms that existed before most people knew that autistic people could be verbal. It is strange that people get butthurt over him when he's a fucking character in a basic-ass Chuck Lorre sitcom of all things.

Fuck, for all the hollering about SJWs being pandered to, a lot of sitcoms still make racist and sexist jokes. Why in the world would they be sensitive about whether their standard sitcom weirdo is ~offensive~ to autistic people?

[(Anonymous)]

I sort of felt the same way as OP in the ep where it was speculated that House might have Asperger's and then it was very quickly dismissed. I have Asperger's and I do identify with him.

[(Anonymous)]

You assume they know enough about autism to even be thinking about it when they create those characters. But they're not out to sneak in purposeful implications of autism that they will then purposefully deny by not saying the word "autistic." They don't know or care as much as you do, they're just trying to make characters people will find funny.

[(Anonymous)]

When the words autism or Asperger's are brought up in canon, you can't pretend they are playing ignorant about the implications.

(Rather, they're using the mere suggestion as a joke.)

[(Anonymous)]

throwing fandom a bone by offhandedly suggesting house may have asperger's doesn't equal the show actively writing house as having asperger's. cause let me guess, this suggestion came during the post Thirteen, writers pandering to house/wilson shippers seasons.

[(Anonymous)]

original person who brought up House here. and your guess would be wrong, the suggestion was brought up earlier in the pre-David Shore's mistress--whoops, I mean 13 era.

[automaticdoor]

Two things that might be of interest in Abed's case:

--The line from the song "Christmas Infiltration" during the Christmas episode in season 3 where Abed raps, "On the spectrum? None of your business."

--Dan Harmon was diagnosed with a form of Asperger's while writing Community.

Abed has a lot of times where he talks about the experiences that "people like him" go through (his enormous fear of being abandoned/locked up in lockers/handcuffs), but he's never said the words "autism" or "Asperger's."