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39. You're telling me that Parsons' chatacter was created to glorify Asperger's?

Sat May 30, 2015, 06:49 PM

May 2015

I know people with it, you don't have to play professor for me. But I don't think that the "Sheldon Cooper" character was created to glorify or celebrate Asperger's, or make it welcome in the living room of every Cleaver family in the country, but rather to be a comic foil for the other three in the dorm room. If there was any higher grand design behind the creation of his character, then bravo, but I haven't heard of it.

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As long as we don't produce a real-life Sheldon Cooper! DFW May 2015 #27

sorry to disappoint Turk 182 May 2015 #38

You're telling me that Parsons' chatacter was created to glorify Asperger's? DFW May 2015 #39

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