naturalplastic wrote:
Its not impossible that something like that could be happening.
Look at the passion aroused on the TV Forum here about the seemingly inane subject of the character Sheldon on the "Big Bang Theory". A minority of posters hate the show and are insulted by the character, by a 100 times more people love the show and the character (who is not described on the show as being an aspie but is nontheless a kind of characture of an aspie in his behavior).
Either way- insulted or impowered- by the sitcom character it shows a group awareness.
That Sheldon character bothers me, but if I accidentally leave the TV on and end up watching some of that show, I admit I laugh at the aspie jokes. But then I'm not sure if it's okay for me to laugh. In some ways I feel that Sheldon is a Jar Jar Binks, shuckin' and jivin' for the neurotypicals.
But Natural Plastic is saying, it shows that there are characteristics that people recognize as "autistic" or "aspie", even if they are not identified as such. I have read a study about this. It's called "Performative Acts of Autism" and it's by Jessica Lester and Trena Paulus, although I don't think it's available for free online yet. Basically it showed that the parents of autistic kids were aware of "autistic traits" that they either said they're kids DID or DIDN'T have, thus proving that the "autistic look" is commonly known at this point. They said things like "Oh Stevie doesn't look autistic but he does sound a little autistic."
I have a buddy who hangs around here sometimes he calls that show nerd-face in analogy of black-face he loves Moss on the IT crowd though.
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19 Aug 2012, 4:28 pm
