Imagine we switched out the behavior. Instead of Sheldon behaving like autistic people do, we could give him the issues people with Tourette’s face. Of course he doesn’t have Tourette’s, but he shows the same involuntary tics, and him behaving like that is the butt of the joke. Would the show be at fault?
I literally gave an argument for why this isn’t the be-all-end-all. Would you like to try engaging with that instead of just repeating a response that doesn’t actually try to understand the issue?
He’s not officially autistic because then it would be obviously wrong to laugh about his behavior - but they still gave him autistic behaviors and expect people to laugh about it! That’s honestly worse, as now it’s supposedly okay to make fun of the things autistic people struggle with.
I hate it because it stereotypes autistic people. I’m tired of being compared to Sheldon Cooper.
they never even said he was autistic?
Yet my autistic tendencies are compared to him.
That’s not the shows fault though, is it? That’s people
Imagine we switched out the behavior. Instead of Sheldon behaving like autistic people do, we could give him the issues people with Tourette’s face. Of course he doesn’t have Tourette’s, but he shows the same involuntary tics, and him behaving like that is the butt of the joke. Would the show be at fault?
Again, you’re still the one stereotyping him as autistic, nowhere in the show does it actually say he is
I literally gave an argument for why this isn’t the be-all-end-all. Would you like to try engaging with that instead of just repeating a response that doesn’t actually try to understand the issue?
My mistake, this response was meant for another commenter, looks like they deleted their comment and I must have clicked on yours instead
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He’s not officially autistic because then it would be obviously wrong to laugh about his behavior - but they still gave him autistic behaviors and expect people to laugh about it! That’s honestly worse, as now it’s supposedly okay to make fun of the things autistic people struggle with.