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Topic	CBS is making a Big Bang Theory spinoff: Young Sheldon
Zeus 05/20/17 3:32:40 PM #57:	yutterh posted... Zeus posted... DorkLink posted... Is Sheldon canonically autistic? He doesn't even seem like any real "nerd" I've met, autistic or not, which is why I find the character so annoying. I've never met an autistic that acts that weirdly. If he is meant to be autistic, it's probably as a parody done by writers who never knew anybody with the disorder and instead based it off shit they saw on tv written by people who hadn't met one either. Honestly, it's just one more awful thing about the show. Actually, autistic kids can be much worse then sheldon. They all have different personalities and functions of autism. Some can't even function. I used to watch a couple of autistic kids and my friends step son is autistic. His step son's half brother is severaly autistic. Like sheldon, things can jsut set them off but they throw much bigger tantrums then sheldon. If anything, sheldon's intelligence is what keeps him from being as bad as he could be. The problem with that statement is that you're talking about non-functioning individuals whereas Sheldon is clearly a functioning individual. Most of Sheldon's traits aren't so much autistic as they are just weird. At least with Tony Schaloub's Monk -- a gross parody of OCD -- many of the behaviors weren't completely out of line with an OC, it was more a matter of having too many traits at once and the extreme traits being played for humor. If we're talking high-functioning autism done right, you could probably take a cue from Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal of Sherlock Holmes which is very clearly identifiable and the traits aren't overplayed so they can be mocked. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| In Zeus We Trust: All Others Pay Cash <cite>Zeus posted [p:879478765] in CBS is mak... [t:75360538]...</cite> <quote><cite>yutterh posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Zeus posted...</cite> <quote><cite>DorkLink posted...</cite> <quote>Is Sheldon canonically autistic? He doesn't even seem like any real "nerd" I've met, autistic or not, which is why I find the character so annoying.</quote> I've never met an autistic that acts that weirdly. If he is meant to be autistic, it's probably as a parody done by writers who never knew anybody with the disorder and instead based it off shit they saw on tv written by people who hadn't met one either. Honestly, it's just one more awful thing about the show.</quote> Actually, autistic kids can be much worse then sheldon. They all have different personalities and functions of autism. Some can't even function. I used to watch a couple of autistic kids and my friends step son is autistic. His step son's half brother is severaly autistic. Like sheldon, things can jsut set them off but they throw much bigger tantrums then sheldon. If anything, sheldon's intelligence is what keeps him from being as bad as he could be.</quote> The problem with that statement is that you're talking about non-functioning individuals whereas Sheldon is clearly a functioning individual. Most of Sheldon's traits aren't so much autistic as they are just weird. At least with Tony Schaloub's Monk -- a gross parody of OCD -- many of the behaviors weren't completely out of line with an OC, it was more a matter of having too many traits at once and the extreme traits being played for humor. If we're talking high-functioning autism done right, you could probably take a cue from Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal of Sherlock Holmes which is very clearly identifiable and the traits aren't overplayed so they can be mocked. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| In Zeus We Trust: All Others Pay Cash</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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