Jon Arbuckle

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Once you read Jim Davis's bio, the comic makes perfect sense. Davis grew up on a farm in rural Indiana with several dozen cats and the usual assortment of farm animals. He's in his 50s now, so presumably his parents were children of the Great Depression who were used to having to do everything the hard way. I presume that since they were way out in the country and did things the way they always had been done that when Jim moved to the city in the late 60s to work on the long forgotten comic Tumbleweeds (a strip about life in the Old West that would be considered extremely bigoted today, therefore down the memory hole it went) that it was quite a shock, ESPECIALLY in the 60s when social experimentation was the buzzword. I bet the farm boy was pretty lonely among all those hippies, and not knowing how to work modern conveniences that the hippies took for granted didn't help. Having met aspies online whose only friends are their cats, Jim probably experienced something close to that. Being a farm kid in the urban 60s is probably the closest that an NT can get to being an aspie.

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When I saw the name I wondered if that was Fatty Arbuckle's real first name, it would be difficult to tell if he had AS now, though. The name didn't ring with me until someone mentioned Garfield. Because he's a fictional character he only has AS if the author makes him that way. I wonder if Jim Davis has AS.

I LOVE Garfield. I have loved Garfield since I was a little kid. I was the only kid I knew that liked Garfield.

I just bought my 6 mo old a pair of Garfield socks that I saw at Target.

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