On the one hand, I’m autistic and I wish that there was better understanding while I was growing up.
On the other hand, I can’t help but be concerned that this is going to be SO politically correct and do way more harm than good.
I wonder when we’ll see “survivor of botched abortion baby” muppet and LGBTXYZFFS muppet. There could thousands of potentially protected class muppets. Christian Bakery Couple Muppet, Satanist High School Kid, etc. Take a stab at it.
Well, the Muppets on Sesame Street already have mental illness anyway. Ernie is manic, Bert is depressive, Big Bird is arrested development, Oscar is a compulsive hoarder, Cookie Monster has a severe eating disorder, Count is obsessive-compulsive, Grover is borderline psychotic, Elmo is... well, Elmo. Might as well throw an autistic into the lot.
Can you tell me how to get - how to get away from Sesame Street.
I think it’s a good idea, so long as there is not too much attention lavished on it. Most autistic adults and young people I know wish to mix in with the public as much as is possible. At least when they are in the mood to socialize, like anybody else.
The only thing I would have done differently at this early stage of the new character, is I would have given her a face with more ‘classically autistic’ features, such as the distinctive eyes and mouth shapes. Many autistic do not have these features I refer to, but some do. These folks and their families have to adjust to and eventually embrace that individual difference. We are all unique in our own way.
Some folks think those with MS are automatically autistic.
Not necessarily so at all.
José, the Illegal Muppet
Janus, the Transexual Muppet
Mohammed, the Jihadi Muppet
Snowflake, the Safe Space Muppet
Hillary, the Parkinson’s Muppet
Elizabeth, the American Indian Muppet
Bernie, the Phony Socialist Muppet
Nancy, the Bug Eyed Muppet
Chuckle, the Self Hating Jew Muppet
Donald, the Winning Muppet
Can’t wait for the character with Turret’s
That will be a gasser.
As long as they don’t spend taxpayer money on it, I don’t care.
next muppet will have Asperger’s?
they gonna put a sign around it's neck or simply announce it every time it comes into viewWhy not, we had speech impediment Elmo.
They are more often BOYS but of course this is a girl.
“Cultural misappropriation.”
Seriously, The boys with autism could use more help as everyone is less kind to boys I think.
I have my reasons to be especially compassionate toward those with autism. It is real and they deserve to be treated well like people, and protected appropriately especially in a mandated school setting where they end up mistreated too often.
So have they done anything about cookie monster eating disorder yet? How about Oscar’s agoraphobia?
The Count’s OCD?
How ‘bout a muppet with Tourette’s? I’d watch that.
I remember a few years back they had an HIV positive Muppet. Did it finally die off?
I thought elmo already had autism...