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James Joseph "Jim" Parsons - He portrays the fictional character "Dr. Sheldon Lee Cooper, PhD" on CBS's "Big Bang Theory".
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Sheldon is a Caltech theoretical physicist who shares an apartment with his colleague and best friend, Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki). Sheldon exhibits a strict adherence to routine, a total lack of social skills, a tenuous understanding of irony, sarcasm, and humor, a general lack of humility or empathy, and displays textbook narcissistic behavior. These characteristics provide the majority of the humor involving him, which has caused him to be described as the show's breakout character. Despite speculation that Sheldon's personality traits may be consistent with Asperger syndrome, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and asexuality, co-creator Bill Prady has repeatedly stated that Sheldon's character was neither conceived nor developed with regard to any of these conditions.
He's a pain to watch, and an even bigger pain to listen to, and I don't care how many awards the actor has won.
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05 Aug 2013, 10:24 pm
Fnord wrote:
James Joseph "Jim" Parsons - He portrays the fictional character "Dr. Sheldon Lee Cooper, PhD" on CBS's "Big Bang Theory".
He's a pain to watch, and an even bigger pain to listen to, and I don't care how many awards the actor has won.
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Sheldon is a Caltech theoretical physicist who shares an apartment with his colleague and best friend, Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki). Sheldon exhibits a strict adherence to routine, a total lack of social skills, a tenuous understanding of irony, sarcasm, and humor, a general lack of humility or empathy, and displays textbook narcissistic behavior. These characteristics provide the majority of the humor involving him, which has caused him to be described as the show's breakout character. Despite speculation that Sheldon's personality traits may be consistent with Asperger syndrome, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and asexuality, co-creator Bill Prady has repeatedly stated that Sheldon's character was neither conceived nor developed with regard to any of these conditions.
He's a pain to watch, and an even bigger pain to listen to, and I don't care how many awards the actor has won.
In spite of all their denial now, when the show first aired, those same producers and writers stated openly in online interviews that Sheldon's character was based on the son of a friend diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome and that they had given the selective mutism trait to Raj so Sheldon wouldn't be "too autistic." Sheldon's personal obsession with trains is straight out of the DSM, where it was used as an example and not meant to be taken literally. In the first two seasons, his behaviors were so Aspergian he might as well have been wearing a Temple Grandin T-shirt.
So if you're Aspie and you can't stand Sheldon, you might consider that that is very much how neurotypcials see you.
05 Aug 2013, 11:10 pm
Willard wrote:
... So if you're Aspie and you can't stand Sheldon, you might consider that that is very much how neurotypcials see you.
Well now, that explains just everything, doesn't it? I'm Sheldon to their ... wait ... are there any dim-witted, unwashed and obese neanderthals on that show?
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