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28 Nov 2017, 11:07 pm

^ YEAH! Jim Parsons PLAYS an aspie on TV but he is no more an aspie in real life than Martin Sheen was POTUS, or Leonard Nimoy was a real space alien.



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29 Nov 2017, 2:20 am

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Jim Parsons' character, Sheldon, in The Big Bang Theory, is a TV personality & he's an Aspie both on screen and in real life.

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Although it hasn't been addressed on the show, Sheldon clearly has some degree of Asperger's or autism. How did you prepare to play such a character? —Michelle Shea, FALLS CHURCH, VA.
I didn't. We had already shot and aired several episodes before I was ever asked the Asperger's-or-autism question. I asked the writers, and they were like, No, he doesn't have it. It's been useful to us to utilize some of those "Aspergian" traits, but we need to be able to move away from it if we want to.

I do not have a problem with people reading into fictional charactors what they please.

As far as Jim Parsons is concerned while he is an out married gay I have not seen anything about him coming out as Aspie so as the saying goes “links please”


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29 Nov 2017, 2:42 am

I don't watch TV or follow pop culture TV celebrities. (except for the lolz about trump that's all over my newsfeed.)

I thought he was an Aspie on the show and IRL, or that's what I remember hearing/being told/reading ??

Maybe not.

Google says his character, Sheldon, was not intentionally modelled on ASD, but there are over 12,000 results about it because basically he's an Aspie.

Couldn't find anything about Jim Parson's being an Aspie. Yeah, I know he's gay though. Thought he was both, too, but maybe it's just the character he plays that's Aspie & he's just gay. w/e not something I really care about or care about being correct about.


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29 Nov 2017, 4:05 am

My totally wild guess is I sometimes wonder if Trump has a mild disorder of the corpus callosum where the two brain hemispheres connect. This is because in weird way it sometimes seems like there are two 'voices' in Trump interrupting each other trying to offer different points of view.

It almost seems like this connection is there but turns on and off during some of his stranger interviews.



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29 Nov 2017, 8:50 am

ASPartOfMe wrote:
goldfish21 wrote:
Jim Parsons' character, Sheldon, in The Big Bang Theory, is a TV personality & he's an Aspie both on screen and in real life.

10 Questions for Jim Parsons
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Although it hasn't been addressed on the show, Sheldon clearly has some degree of Asperger's or autism. How did you prepare to play such a character? —Michelle Shea, FALLS CHURCH, VA.
I didn't. We had already shot and aired several episodes before I was ever asked the Asperger's-or-autism question. I asked the writers, and they were like, No, he doesn't have it. It's been useful to us to utilize some of those "Aspergian" traits, but we need to be able to move away from it if we want to.

I do not have a problem with people reading into fictional charactors what they please.

As far as Jim Parsons is concerned while he is an out married gay I have not seen anything about him coming out as Aspie so as the saying goes “links please”

His character is never identified as being aspie/autistic on the show, but the character IS a "character" because he possesses traits that amount to a kind of a cartoon version of aspergers. So for practical purposes "Parsons plays an aspie on TV". Gay and aspie are not mutually exclusive. But his character is...well kinda asexual actually...but ostensibly heterosexual, but the actor is gay IRL. Intentionally or not his character also comes off as having kind of gay vibe IMHO (probably not the actor's intent, he cant help it).



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29 Nov 2017, 11:57 am

I think not. If you go back to interviews with him from the 80's, he comes across as a regular, low-key dude. Well-spoken and socially-poised. It's always been my opinion that he's playing everyone, that he knows how American politics work, and he's just manipulating the system. He's not an idiot, after all. He's a businessman, and the first job of a businessman is to know the market and exploit it. This is exactly the way I expect a hard-core capitalist to win the presidency. Looking at it from this angle, I've found every one of his moves fascinating. Maybe I'm reading into it too much, though.


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29 Nov 2017, 1:29 pm

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I just read a HuffPost Politics article about Donald Trump referring to Elizabeth Warren as "Pocahontas," at a ceremony intended to honour Native American veterans - namely Navajo Code Talkers - and one of the commenters on the Facebook post wrote "Autism. Full blown autism."

I've read a few speculations in the past that Barron Trump is on the spectrum (he's out of public view, so who knows ? IMO) but the more I see his father's social blunders make daily headlines the more I think it might not just be Narcissism & Dementia, but could very well be ASD.

I remember some thread debates about whether Obama was an Aspie, but his social missteps were few and far between in comparison and IIRC it was more about the prosody of his speech, memory recall, encyclopedic knowledge of various topics etc but with Trump it's definitely more about his very public social blunders.

The commenter who wrote "Autism. Full blown autism." followed up with a post saying "Yeah. Autism has a strong hereditary component - Barron may have inherited it from dad. ..I just keep seeing the many social and reactive blunders he makes, the lack of integrated/nuanced thoughts, the preference for routine, the binary thinking, how quickly he is overwhelmed by the load of information coming at him, and I keep seeing autism."

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Hilarious :lmao:


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29 Nov 2017, 1:34 pm

VIDEODROME wrote:
My totally wild guess is I sometimes wonder if Trump has a mild disorder of the corpus callosum where the two brain hemispheres connect. This is because in weird way it sometimes seems like there are two 'voices' in Trump interrupting each other trying to offer different points of view.

It almost seems like this connection is there but turns on and off during some of his stranger interviews.


There are lots of voices in Trump, but they are his various advisers trying to keep him in line.


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29 Nov 2017, 6:06 pm

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There are lots of voices in Trump, but they are his various advisers trying to keep him in line.


If that's true, he should fire them all for not doing their job.


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29 Nov 2017, 7:19 pm

These theories about well known people's mental disorders (especially POTUS for goodness sake) are bordering moderate-or-high on the creep factor.



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29 Nov 2017, 8:46 pm

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These theories about well known people's mental disorders (especially POTUS for goodness sake) are bordering moderate-or-high on the creep factor.


How?

No one is stalking the guy like paparazzi looking for the latest scoop on his mental deficiencies - Trump is putting them on full public display for all to observe.

Even professional Psychiatrists have been breaking their typical ethics rules of not diagnosing public figures & coming out in droves to say that they believe he is mentally unfit to be leading The United States and poses a danger to American Citizens in that his instability could result in real world ramifications such as war with North Korea.


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29 Nov 2017, 9:03 pm

Trump doesn't have Autism. What he is, is just a really big as*hole.


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30 Nov 2017, 9:15 am

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Not a chance in hell. Hes a television personality FSS. Of course you think that autism comes from poop bacteria and that big pharma has some conspiracy to keep everyone sick so who cares what you think.


Jim Parsons' character, Sheldon, in The Big Bang Theory, is a TV personality & he's an Aspie both on screen and in real life.

It's not what I think, it what I know. It is definitely exacerbated by an imbalance of intestinal flora. Modern medicine is slowly studying the gut micro-biome & it's correlation to ASD and will slowly but surely prove all of this as time goes on. Probiotic treatments have been tested and observed in ASD presenting mice, I've been doing it for myself for over 4 years now, and eventually medical studies and human trials will be done with groups of Autistic people.


'tested and observed in ASD presenting mice' did they pick out the mice that refused to socialise with the other mice, or give them them all full ASD assessments? :D No wonder I was on the waiting list for ten months.


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30 Nov 2017, 9:34 am

Alas, autistic mice have priority these days. It’s the PC climate...



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30 Nov 2017, 9:34 am

Frontotemporal dementia. And I suspect a lot of other people have it too, across all income levels. AND I also suspect it has shaped our current sociopolitical environment, massively.

Anyone old enough to remember the Peter Sellers movie "Being There" (from the novel by Jerzy Kosinski) knows that Reagan's dementia was widely suspected, early on. We just have no social mechanism for addressing mentally disabled people in positions of power, whatever the etiology, other than denial. And we pay for that.


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30 Nov 2017, 2:47 pm

fluffysaurus wrote:
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Not a chance in hell. Hes a television personality FSS. Of course you think that autism comes from poop bacteria and that big pharma has some conspiracy to keep everyone sick so who cares what you think.


Jim Parsons' character, Sheldon, in The Big Bang Theory, is a TV personality & he's an Aspie both on screen and in real life.

It's not what I think, it what I know. It is definitely exacerbated by an imbalance of intestinal flora. Modern medicine is slowly studying the gut micro-biome & it's correlation to ASD and will slowly but surely prove all of this as time goes on. Probiotic treatments have been tested and observed in ASD presenting mice, I've been doing it for myself for over 4 years now, and eventually medical studies and human trials will be done with groups of Autistic people.


'tested and observed in ASD presenting mice' did they pick out the mice that refused to socialise with the other mice, or give them them all full ASD assessments? :D No wonder I was on the waiting list for ten months.


I didn't conduct the study, how should I know? Google is your friend. Autism Speaks conducted the study I referenced. Go read up on it and contact them if you really want to know.


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