Sheldon Cooper. Aspie, or offensive parody?

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For me Sheldon is neiter "typical" AS nor an offensive parody. He's a sitcom character written by the talentless hack Chuck Lorre, so what could you expect? If someone wants to see a comedy character with AS traits, but with smart writing and more than cheap laughs, watch Community...seriously, Lorre created such masterpieces as Mike&Molly and Two And A Half Men, it's sad how overhyped that stuff gets.

Just watched some clips for the first time. I thought some of them were hilarious, but found others to be downright offensive. Sheldon saying: 'And you're frustrated because he phrased his reply in the form of a meaningless tautology?', very funny. Sheldon crying for his mom during some kind of semipsychotic meltdown, downright insulting.

I just re-watched Re-Animator, and you know, Herbert West's mannerisms and speech - I thought- bore a strong resemblance to Sheldon's. I have to think, if Sheldon is an Aspie, then so is Herbert West. Just more twisted.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I've been compared to this character numerous times by several different people... Someone even called me "Sheldon" once...

Sheldon is very likely an Aspie, problem is that it's a comedy and the authors gave him pretty much every stereotyped behaviour there is (bar the stimming). If he were a normal Aspie guy, he wouldn't be funny.

(And please, no spoilers. Some of us do not live in the US and don't have TV and watch shows on DVDs.)

you can watch it on bee tv for free. If you want the link PM me.

The first time my mom saw the show she said "You're just like that guy!"
sigh. thanks mom..

I'm not offended by Sheldon (who does sometimes remind me of certain Aspies I've met) and find The Big Bang Theory to be amusing at times, but I agree. Abed from Community is a more realistic, better-developed, funnier and more likable Aspie character. Interestingly, the possibility of Abed having AS is alluded to by Jeff Winger (Joel McHale's character) on the pilot, but then afterwards his condition seems to be treated as more ambiguous by the other shows' characters. (Though Abed does rap, "On the spectrum? None of your business" on the Glee parody episode.) He seems pretty clearly Aspie to me, though.

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i <3 the show and Sheldon. We don't like that his so-called friends mistreat him but he does make it hard for them sometimes. Overall the show is just such a classic sitcom with a great Odd Couple dynamic. Is Sheldon a realistic character? Hardly. Even if we all know people with similar traits (and even if some of them live in my house lol). Same goes for the other exaggerated characters on the show. I don't care. I can't stop watching it.

I can't see how his friends mistreat him. He drives them nuts , understandably but they make a lot of allowances for him. If anything he mistreats them as he uses them for his own gain, even when he appears to do something for them it's normally to satisfy his own needs

I used to drive my friends nuts, too. And like Sheldon's friends, they could get fed up with me.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

My wife told me that I am like him when we first started watching the show. When I wiki'd him one day I saw people thought he may have AS, which was the moment I decided to look up AS on a more serious scale than before and led to everything else concerning AS with myself so far. I have a character named after him on Star Trek Online, along with a ship named the U.S.S. Wheatonbane.

Well, Sheldon mentions that he is aware of body postures and facial expressions being linked with stuff at the time it happens in one episode.

I didn't feel offended before, but now that my mom and counselor have related me to him so much, it's beginning to be a little bit offensive, considering that my mom laughs at Sheldon, which is indirectly laughing at me.

Well, my counselor has only brought up me being like Sheldon once when she was explaining that many people related him to AS, but my mom relates me to him a lot.

Not a fan of the show; is there an option for "extremely annoying ass, with a ridiculous caricature of Christianity for a mother"?

From the moment I saw the show I knew he was. They say not, but he is an extreme example and I do not consider it offensive. It's just a comical exaggeration.