Aspies For Freedom

I was reading the article in the AFF Wiki, about what cartoon characters are suspected to have Asperger's Syndrome. Seeing as I've spent alot of my time watching cartoons, I find the concept very interesting.

I always suspected Lisa has Asperger's, or at least was a feminist type. I like how she goes and advocates for different causes. I wish I could do more of that, but going to protests really isn't as safe as they make it look on The Simpsons.

Here are a couple of cartoon characters who haven't been listed that might be on the spectrum:

Norbert from Angry Beavers. I think he's kind of Aspie, or he might just look incredibly intelligent in contrast to his brother Dagget. I like Dagget more because he's the comic relief, but Norbert is like the straight man.

I think in one epsiode Norbert collected novelty cups for a Star Wars parody. In another episode Norbert bought a grand piano with a hairdryer, it was supposed to "Dry your hair in a minuet".

Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants

Well,  yes he does seem to be a loveable oaf type character, which typically is a stereotype character of Auties/Aspies. Like, in the Looney Tune cartoons where they'd have a character, act like the mentally challanged guy from Of Mice and Men.

I think Patrick may be Aspie/or Autie. There was an episode called I'm With Stupid, where Spongebob pretended to be stupider than Patrick to help Patrick's parents see how smart Patrick was.

This episode involved alot of crazy parodies of Auties, I don't know if you could call them negative. It's kind of in the perspective of laughing at ones-self vs being bully-like. Like Spongebob wore his Karate helmet when he went to Patrick's house. There were parts where Spongebob misinterpreted language, like mistaking the word house for blouse.

In the end the episode showed that Patrick was so happy to have someone beneath him intellectually, that he started abusing Spongebob in the way he was abused. Like calling Spongebob a dummy, and acting as if Spongebob couldn't learn anything by himself. I think there were times for alot of us where we got frusterated with people assuming, that because we're Aspie we must know nothing, or be considered basically low-functioning Autistic. I think that's what they were expressing with Patrick.

So it ends up that Patrick's parents couldn't find him, and that the parents who were with him weren't his parents. Which all in all seems to portray the perspective that in general Starfish are kind of Autie/Aspie acting. I'm not sure if they're kind of saying Starfish are representative of lower-functioning people on the spectrum, or that they might be really smart but socially fall apart, so that when people talk to them they seem less intelligent because they're awkward socially.

They still rerun episodes of Angry Beavers, on the Nicktoons channel.

I think Charlie Brown from all the Peanuts TV specials was very aspie like.  If you are around my age and grew up in the US, you know these shows very well.  He was always being bullied by that Lucy girl, became infatuated with the little red haired girl and was descriminated against in the Halloween special.  He went trick-or-treating and everyone gave him rocks instead of candy.  He seems like the typical Aspie kid regarded as a loser by all his peers.  I remember that one of the nicknames the other kids used to call me was Charlie Brown.

I don't know much about Star Wars, aside from that I think R2D2 is kind of cute.

I was playing a game based on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends called The Big Fat Awesome House Party. You can play it at http://www.awesomehouseparty.com. The great thing about the game, is it's like a massively multi-player game, but it's instead a massively single player game. So you don't need to team up with others to get to a goal. Aside from some of the characters in the house.

So I was thinking, of course, Cheese is a Aspie-ish kind of character! If you've seen the Mac Daddy episode of Foster's you'll understand what I mean.

I personally acted alot like Cheese as a kid. Especially with the slurping a drink and then, going "pah!" afterwards to breathe. As well as the part where Cheese is playing with a toy horse and goes, "da-dun-da-dun-da-dun-da-dun-BWAHHH!" That was one of those things that was ROFLOL as a kid.

Strong Sad could be Aspie, or just really depressed. Maybe both.

omid, I agree with you. However, if you're claiming that Squidward is an underacheiver for having a cashier job, then the same could be said about Spongebob flipping Krabby Patties. Now if you had said Squidward's a slacker, then that I can agree with.

Also Squidward could be representative of how NTs view Aspies. Where Spongebob is more like the fun side of being Aspie. Even though he does have a few friends, alot of the stuff he does with them seems rather rediculous to outsiders.

I remember that. "I got a rock! :angry: AUUUGGGHHH!!!"

Sure thing, I  just started the thread as making the theme about cartoon characters, because I tend to watch alot of cartoons myself and pick up on cute Aspie jokes in them.

I also wanted to mention, I was watching the show Mike Lu and Og on Boomerang. Og is really aspie, like Mike, (it's a girl, I think she's supposed to be really tomboyish, so she changed her name to a more male sounding nickname) and Og were playing a game, and Og kept getting distracted by animals..and kept referring to them by their latin scientific name.

Yes, they were too.

I think Daria from Daria could have been a tad autistic but then again, maybe she was just geeky. I like Daria a lot and also her friend and brother as characters.

The one where someone was being sarcastic because a cake fell in the bath; well, the lady only had herself to blame if she said it was okay for her husband to eat the cake. If she didn't want him to eat it, she should have said so.

I'm not sure about Angela Anaconda & if she might show just a couple of autie traits.

Possibly Catweazle was a bit autie but then again, he would have suffered immense culture shock from moving forward in time by five centuries or so and maybe that's why he acted a bit strangely.

These 3 shows are all ones that I really liked.

I love the Daria cartoons - she is such a "real" personality and I can relate to so many things she says. Her friends are cool too.

My 15 year old daughter reminds me a lot of Daria but unlike Daria, she has quite a few friends.

I wonder if Angela Anaconda could be a bit AS too.

I also loved the Catweazle show and it is one of the few shows I can stand to watch repeats of: ditto with The Goodies, Daria, and Angela Anaconda.

She reminds me a lot of my younger daughter when she was in upper primary school (even somewhat in appearance). Michelle reminds me more of Daria now but without the glasses and flat sounding voice.

Michelle has a very sarcastic sense of humour and has no patience for social climbers, fakes and status seekers.

Inspector Gadget?

Bamm Bamm from the Flinstones?

Mork from Ork.  :smile:

Yes. So was Laverne and Shirley and Joanie Loves Chachi. I got a bit tired of both of those shows quite soon but had a lot more time for Mork and Mindy. I thought Mork was kind of cute, especially in that red uniform.