PBS show 'Arthur' introduces a character with Asperger's syndrome

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chumbucket

- 2012-09-18

uh, sorry to leave you curled up in a blubbering ball of hurt on the floor, bye

Corpus Delectable

- 2012-09-19

I've wrapped up so many dates with that line.

FABIO - 2012-09-19

Never got the appeal to this show, even as a kid. Seemed like an even blander version of the Bernstein Bears.

"Unremarkable Kids Tolerate Each Other: The Cartoon"

Konversekid

- 2012-09-19

So true. Granted I think the unremarkable nature of this show prepared me for how boring adult life actually is.

memedumpster - 2012-09-19

It's one of the many crushingly boring "real life kids shows" with no fantasy or other elements that make it more entertaining than watching a sheltered Christian family.

Sudan no1

- 2012-09-19

It's a show for the Rod and Todd Flanders of the world.

Bort

- 2013-07-19

No way Rod and Todd would be allowed to watch this -- those aren't even talking animals, they're pagan demons.

garcet71283

- 2012-09-19

Carl, have I got a deal for you!

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twinkieafternoon

- 2012-09-19

5 for you, since you beat me to it.

BHWW

- 2012-09-19

Next, 'Arthur' introduces a character with self-diagnosed Asperger's syndrome.

"YOU CAN'T JUDGE ME FOR BEHAVING LIKE AN ASSHOLE, I('m pretty sure I) HAVE DOUBLE-PLUS EXTRA-STRENGTH ASPERGERS, YOU NEUROTYPICAL BIGOT. I WAS BORN THIS WAY."

BiggerJ

- 2012-09-19

Hell, they're already halfway there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXLgz3wH2n8

EvilHomer

- 2012-09-19

God, not two minutes in and I already want to throttle the little bastard.

Are aspies the new "Asian kid in a wheelchair"?

Old_Zircon - 2012-09-19

Asperger's was taken out of the DSM-V, apparently because there's not much in the way of concrete evidence that it's different from high-functioning autistism.

Simillion

- 2012-09-19

I was terrified of that giraffe too. 6:00 in.

twinkieafternoon - 2012-09-19

They make it sound so desirable!

big pincers

- 2012-09-20

of course he draws trains and is a train expert

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