South Park gets Aspergers wrong

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After seeing this thread, out of curiosity, I watched the episode.

Like some of the above posters said, it's nothing you should take too seriously/get offended by.

Can't say I thought the humor was good, though. :/

used to watch southpark all the time when had access to comedy central but cant recall seeing this episode,but why do so many aspies only care when aspergers becomes a target?
theyve targeted everything from intelectual disability,to immigrants, to ginger hair, to public swimming pools,to aliens, to scientologists, to black people,to muhammed etc, they deliberately try to be shocking to everything because they can be.

matt and trey are awesome,aparantely they were off their faces on acid at one oscar awards and they never got asked back.

re. mention of family guy and disability.
family guy is a lot more tasteful on disability than southpark will ever be,they did a good episode featuring down syndrome;the voice actor playing the character with downs actualy has downs herself.

then theres officer joe swanson who portrays a paralegic, it shows him as a person desperate to be independant and not pitied or helped,plus his wheelchair doesnt have handles;many of us who use wheelchairs hate when people assume just because theres handles on it we can be pushed without our choice to meet the pushers 'feel good' quota and many wheelchairs come without handles as a result or can have the handles removed.

I find the character of "Sheldon" on Big Bang Theory to be a much more distasteful view of Asperger's than the South Park episode. At least with South Park you know right out of the gate it's going to be an over-the-top mischaracterization. With the "Sheldon" character a lot of laypeople assume everyone with Asperger's is a savant of sorts, difficult to deal with, and has the emotional maturity of a five year old. Now if you don't act like "Sheldon" then most NT's think you're just making sh*t up. The biggest knock on the South Park episode isn't that they chose Asperger's as a theme it's that it was written poorly compared to some of their higher quality episodes.

Scr*w you guys, I'm going home.....

South Park tries to be as topical as possible, it is written week to week so it can be current.
It's satire, they have made fun of almost everything under the sun including the show itself.

It is far from perfect and Trey Parker could very well regret that episode.

Dunno if I have Asperger's or Ass Burgers or both but it nailed my view of the world. I experience internally the happy world but externally people seem just oblivious.

I don't like South Park. I used to dabble in it, but it was, and still, too offensive and vulgar. I'm glad I don't watch it anymore.

I actually thought the episode was targeting the harmful myths surrounding Asperger syndrome.

In typical hyperbolic South Park fashion.

I think they got it wrong on purpose because they were making fun of the overdiagnoses and kids getting misdiagnosed with it without even understanding what the condition is. Stan was obviously depressed, not autistic. And that Ass Burgers joke was old so it wasn't funny what Cartman was doing. I also thought they were making fun of the ignorance about it.

Agreed, and agreed. South Park is a heavily satirical show, and the show's creators aren't afraid to offend people. A lot of people don't enjoy this type of humor, but I do, and I honestly think that it's superior to shows like Family Guy that rely heavily on randomness and pop culture references. South Park does have its moments of grossout humor and downright absurdity, but underneath it all there's a lot of great social commentary.

I stopped watching that show because of that tasteless joke

In a way though they got it right. One of the hallmark symptoms of having Aspergers is taking things literally, like literally thinking Aspergers meant having burgers on your ass.

Despite everything, I still watch both South Park and the Simpsons, because conservatives hate those shows. If those shows ever go off the air, I will start watching porn.

I have a long-standing criteria that I will not date any woman who doesn’t watch those shows. In fact, I hope to relocate to Seattle, San Francisco or NYC to meet those types of women, because I absolutely, positively won’t meet them in Houston.

I thought it meant in my ass..

Ok, I HATE that episode. Like, bro, it's not a joke. Making jokes about ANYTHING works how the "n" slur does. You can't use it if you don't live it. So the makers of that show need to stfu.
I will say this though. I don't like how you used the "r" slur.

I watched it and didn't get one bit offended. I put all reality aside while watching the episode and just laughed. I've known South Park since I was 8 and I love the way they make fun of everything. It wouldn't be South Park if they didn't.

The Asperger's episode in Arthur annoyed me more, because in that it wasn't meant to be a joke, so kids watching it will see Aspies as these robotic nerds with no social skills at all and are scared of harmless toys like toy giraffes and are obsessed with trains. Asperger's is more complex than that, it wouldn't have been so bad if the character was described as "low-functioning autism", although it still illustrates a stereotype. But as an Aspie kid I was nowhere near like that at all. I was more like DW. And maybe George in school.

But the South Park episode is just hilarious, and if more people just laughed at these jokes on TV instead of getting all offended, this world would be a much better place, like it was years ago. South Park is aimed at adults, so the episode isn't exactly teaching anyone anything, it's just there for laughs. For those with a sense of humour.

Same.
Little personal there though...
The subject...
I love trey Parker and Matt Stone
(ever since 1998)
They can do no wrong
In my eyes..
(show isn't what it once was tho....I don't actually follow it anymore..lol)
I probably watched this show the week it came out...