they gonna put a sign around it's neck or simply announce it every time it comes into view
Posted on 03/20/2017 11:47:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Folks on Sesame Street have a way of making everyone feel accepted.
That certainly goes for Julia, a Muppet youngster with blazing red hair, bright green eyes – and autism. Rather than being treated like an outsider, which too often is the plight of kids on the spectrum, Julia is one of the gang.
Look: On this friendliest of streets (actually Studio J at New York’s Kaufman Astoria Studios, where “Sesame Street” lives) Julia is about to play a game with Oscar, Abby and Grover. In this scene being taped for airing next season, these Muppet chums have been challenged to spot objects shaped like squares or circles or triangles.
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and the long running Big Bird - Mr. Snuffleupagus story.
next muppet will have Asperger’s?
Like the saying goes: If you've seen one child with Autism, well, you've seen one child with Autism - the spectrum is so wide.
If I had a dollar for everyone that says: "My sister-in-law's friend has a cousin with Autism...."
Sooo, you understand what it's like to raise a child with Autism - thank you for your understanding (said silently).
I think it's just a matter of people extending a little grace towards something they don't really understand - you don't have to understand, just allow us a little grace, please.
I always hoped Kermit would develop full blown Tourette’s.
For years, I waited..
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they gonna put a sign around it's neck or simply announce it every time it comes into view
LOL! (I would say, don’t give them any ideas, but they have em already!)
LOL, I thought either Oscar or Cookie Monster had Tourrette’s!
But CBS is going to have a Tv series based on a young 9 year old prodigy Sheldon Cooper as he attends high school, what fun /s .
Why not, we had speech impediment Elmo.
Chaz Bono?
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.
How old are you? And was your autism self-diagnosed or diagnosed by a doctor?
As of 10-15 years ago, autism began to be overdiagnosed.
It became an excuse for bratty behavior from children raised by permissive parents. When these aforementioned brats began having children, the behavior mutated into the SJWs we ridicule today.
I say this as a parent whose child was “medically” diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome. He exhibited these supposed markers when I realized he was not spending enough time with peers and was therefore socially retarded. He also played (and still plays) too many video games.
He is now 26 and fairly well adjusted, enough to hold down an extremely well paying mechanical engineering job.
Yes, I am thinking of Downs Syndrome features.
To be truthful, I didn’t know if it was still correct to describe the condition as ‘Downs Syndrome’ or not.
I’m 31. Diagnosed by a psychiatrist at age 23.
And believe me, I resisted believing the diagnosis for as long as I possibly could. It made my life painfully more complicated to accept it.
Fortunately it’s not an overly severe case. With a little medication and a lot of training, I am living in the world much better than before. It’s still a daily struggle with severe social anxiety though.
With a little medication ...
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Now that’s strange. The doctor told my son there was no medical treatment that could alleviate the problem.
I remember a few years back they had an HIV positive Muppet. Did it finally die off?
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