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[–] 3 points 6 months ago (13 children)

i don't get the hate. was my comfort show for a good five years.. it's a random ass sitcom, what did people want it to be?

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    I hate it because it stereotypes autistic people. I'm tired of being compared to Sheldon Cooper.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    they never even said he was autistic?

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Yet my autistic tendencies are compared to him.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    That's not the shows fault though, is it? That's people

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Imagine we switched out the behavior. Instead of Sheldon behaving like autistic people do, we could give him the issues people with Tourette's face. Of course he doesn't have Tourette's, but he shows the same involuntary tics, and him behaving like that is the butt of the joke. Would the show be at fault?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Again, you're still the one stereotyping him as autistic, nowhere in the show does it actually say he is

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I literally gave an argument for why this isn't the be-all-end-all. Would you like to try engaging with that instead of just repeating a response that doesn't actually try to understand the issue?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    He's not officially autistic because then it would be obviously wrong to laugh about his behavior - but they still gave him autistic behaviors and expect people to laugh about it! That's honestly worse, as now it's supposedly okay to make fun of the things autistic people struggle with.

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