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I think his social reciprocation is too good, but it'd make for a poor show if he always didn't get his point across (which makes the humor).

But yeah, pretty close.

You are not the arbiter of what is "worthy of an eye roll"

You miss the point quite obviously and I dont care

I along with another poster view that in relation to the actors "coming out" recently.

Its quite blatant

What chewing the scenery and being a ham means is unclear to me and perhaps others?

Exactly!

If Sheldon were not portrayed as some kind of social misfit, the show would be just another hum-drum room-mate sitcom.

But why is it that "misfit" should automatically equate to "Aspie"?

It's like saying that any woman with a visible tattoo is automatically "easy".

"Chewing the Scenery" means ACTING with EMPHASIS. Nearly any emotion will do here, so long as it's EXTREME! Actors who really go "all out" are said to chew the scenery. Sometimes scenes can actually require this, but more often the actor and/or director just has the character go over the emotional top.

"Ham" means over-acting - in this case, the actor playing Sheldon is over-acting the quintessential know-it-all intellectual and by doing so, he is turning the character into a caricature of intellectualism.

Have you ever heard of a search engine called "Google"?

have you ever actually watched the show?

But he is acting aspie - how is he "over the emotional top" - he is the opposite!

In other words you mean over acting in English. Well the awards suggest he is doing a pretty good job. You can find out about those on google also.

misfit should not equate to aspie - being like vast numbers of people with aspergers however does.

its nothing like that analogy either

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An iconic example of the scenery chewing ham is Brian Blessed, who may hopefully illustrate the concept a bit more.

As far as Sheldon Cooper goes, I can't find it now but I do recall finding statements by show writers indicating that he technically is but they don't want to make it official, as opposed to outright denial. Since I can't seem to find such statements now, it probably doesn't mean much.

Brian Blessid is quite a remarkable man actually

means something to me as I've seen the same thing

Not that i needed confirmation of the obvious

It's true. Brian Blessed is pretty amazing. I think I saw him first in Flash Gordon.

Seriously? Do we even have to ask this question?

and... the show is great. Sheldon is great. In fact, all of the guys are great. It's like having a tv camera on the wall of my house, casually observing my family...

[and can I just say how much I love the women in this show??? Especially AMY. She is THE GREATEST!]

FUN WITH FLAGS!

"I surrender to fun!"

Am i the only one frustrated that the show makers wont make his autism official?

the episode where he's in the comic book store with Leonard and Penny and he is asking them to buy him a toy robot... its so damn obvious.

If you had simply written flamboyant without putting in quotation marks people might have gotten the dictionary definition from it. Putting the word in quotation marks makes it seem like you're using the word as a more subtle way of saying homosexual.

I perfectly understand that they wont. If they do they will have autism speaks and every other lousy parent of a child with AS up their ass the next time they make a joke that might make you offended if you really want to be. It's much better as it is now. They can have fun with it, we can have fun with it, and nobody can complain!

Sheldon is not Autistic. He's a caricature of an Aspie. He's such an exaggeration of Autism that he doesn't even seem like a real person with an ASD to me. His character would definitely fit the criteria for AS but if I were a doctor and I were diagnosing him I would get the strong impression that he is faking.

Sheldon seems more like a NT that is pretending to be Autistic and doing a very bad job of it to me.

this.

They will maybe admit it when they want to can it. But not before.

I do wish it was possible for them to say it openly but it really is not

Why does it matter whether Sheldon is Aspie/Autie, whatever?

HE'S A CHARACTER. A character in a sitcom. He's supposed to be a funny character in a sitcom. That's ALL.

If you like the show, then you're happy and you don't care whether he's an aspie. In fact, having an aspie on tv is cool. He's a productive member of society, he lives independently, he has friends and a girlfriend, and he gets to do what he wants to do in life. He's better off than 50% of the world population. Isn't this a good thing?