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28 Sep 2009, 10:58 pm

All too familiar:

http://www.xkcd.com/642/

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28 Sep 2009, 11:44 pm

Haha! I've been reading the XKCD webcomics for a while now, and I've always been able to identify with them, but when I read this one it just took the cake. Now I'm beggining to wonder if XKCDs creator Randall Munroe has Aspergers.

Just found this page which talks about XKCD and mentions Aspergers a bunch of times: http://badwebcomics.wikidot.com/xkcd

^I'm pretty sure it's just supposed to be satirical, not serious.

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29 Sep 2009, 2:32 am

Klint wrote:

Just found this page which talks about XKCD and mentions Aspergers a bunch of times: http://badwebcomics.wikidot.com/xkcd

^I'm pretty sure it's just supposed to be satirical, not serious.

I think the stick figures are such a big part of those cartoons' charm. It pretty much looks like what I would do if I ever made a web comic.

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29 Sep 2009, 3:03 am

I've seen those comics, they are very good.

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29 Sep 2009, 10:46 am

Klint wrote:

Just found this page which talks about XKCD and mentions Aspergers a bunch of times: http://badwebcomics.wikidot.com/xkcd

^I'm pretty sure it's just supposed to be satirical, not serious.

Funny you say that, since this one made me actually consider if he does have it.

http://xkcd.com/602/

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29 Sep 2009, 11:06 am

I remember that one as well Though whether or not he had AS didn't occur to me at the time

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12 Oct 2009, 2:01 pm

It's awesome.

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14 Oct 2011, 11:05 am

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... _ducks.JPG

he HAS aspergers

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14 Oct 2011, 1:21 pm

I like how the characters don't have faces. That's very cool.

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14 Oct 2011, 2:04 pm

xkcd is the s***!

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14 Oct 2011, 2:39 pm

I've never much liked xkcd. Sometimes it is funny, but most of the strips have me thinking "yeah, and?"

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14 Oct 2011, 4:11 pm

<3 XKCD.

As for the picture:
Thats how i felt when i was younger and had this defeatist "Whats the point, she's probably not interested anyway".
Now when i'm grown up, i'm more "Whats the point, she's probably a selfish idiot anyway".

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19 Jun 2012, 12:02 am

Sorry to bump quite an old topic, but I'm interested in more opinions on this. Any other XKCD fans here? Personally, I think he has a wonderful attention to detail for a start, the guy is clearly extremely intelligent at the very least, has anyone seen some of his chart creations - the self-referential chart for a start (http://xkcd.com/688/)? If anyone has ever read all of XKCD, I think if it was ever possible to diagnose anyone with Asperger's from their webcomic, and if I were qualified to judge, I would diagnose Randall Munroe. In fact, xkcd should practically be the webcomic for Asperger's. :lol:

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