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01 Dec 2011, 5:08 pm

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If you watch other videos from the series, you'll notice that for some reason, he gets into situations that are awkward because of the other people. For example, there was one in which he was sitting in a hot tub and an overweight man tried to play marco-polo with him.

So basically the nerdy chap is normal and everyone else around him is mental. Yes, I can appreciate the humour in that. Not sure it makes me understand AS better though.


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01 Dec 2011, 9:58 pm

pete1061 wrote:
It's "Gabe" from the US version of "The Office", season 7... (Zach Woods)


I knew it! I don't really get it, but I find it somewhat amusing. Not sure why.



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01 Dec 2011, 10:26 pm

readingbetweenlines wrote:
Frakkin wrote:
If you watch other videos from the series, you'll notice that for some reason, he gets into situations that are awkward because of the other people. For example, there was one in which he was sitting in a hot tub and an overweight man tried to play marco-polo with him.

So basically the nerdy chap is normal and everyone else around him is mental. Yes, I can appreciate the humour in that. Not sure it makes me understand AS better though.


AS people are "sane" while everyone else seems "insane", kind of like the difference between him being 'normal' and everyone around him being 'mental'. I think that's how the world might appear to many people with autism...



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02 Dec 2011, 1:43 am

I think it just makes the viewer go through what someone with aspergers might go through on a daily basis. The guy (and viewer) thinks he's just in a normal situation, ordering some food. All the pieces fit. He interacts with someone that seems in every way to be the waitress only to get a shocking backlash from the girl. Suppose you go into a store through the exit and an employee tells you off and you don't know why because you didn't read the signs. Similar emotional/mental experience.