Both in general, just personally as myself, and as an autistic person:
I fucking despise Sheldon.
He is an inconsiderate asshole.
It is entirely possible to be a high functioning autistic person and not be a complete fucking asshole.
Because Sheldon exists, any time I tell someone I am autistic, he is who I get compared, by default.
The show does a piss poor job of representing a very obviously autism coded character.
He’s basically depicted as a sociopath.
Autistic people are not sociopaths.
They do not all have an absurd level of narcissistic self confidence, they more often have pretty darn low self confidence due to their proposensity to fail real world dialogue checks against neurotypical people.
And this troubles them. It makes them frustrated, sad and angry that someone misunderstood them or visa versa, they aren’t flippant, cock sure assholes who only see other people as means to and end.
Both in general, just personally as myself, and as an autistic person:
I fucking despise Sheldon.
He is an inconsiderate asshole.
It is entirely possible to be a high functioning autistic person and not be a complete fucking asshole.
Because Sheldon exists, any time I tell someone I am autistic, he is who I get compared, by default.
The show does a piss poor job of representing a very obviously autism coded character.
He’s basically depicted as a sociopath.
Autistic people are not sociopaths.
They do not all have an absurd level of narcissistic self confidence, they more often have pretty darn low self confidence due to their proposensity to fail real world dialogue checks against neurotypical people.
And this troubles them. It makes them frustrated, sad and angry that someone misunderstood them or visa versa, they aren’t flippant, cock sure assholes who only see other people as means to and end.
… I fucking hate Sheldon.