What does a TV series need to do or not do for you to give up watching it?

Eh. All that about Sheldon Cooper. What is he, 50 now? Heh.

According to the Episode The Intimacy Acceleration Sheldon Cooper was born on February 26th. According to the TBBT Wiki he was born in 1980. So Sheldon Cooper is 35 years, 2 month and 8 days old as of May 4th, 2015.

Walking Dead had really pissed me off the last two seasons. Making you wait 6 or 8 months for the second half of a season - having several episodes of pure oppression and abuse by Negan and the Saviors.

I was thinking people with Aspberger's and similar syndromes that affect interpersonal interactions might be able to develop coping mechanisms, but I'm not sure how successful they are--& if that's a daily battle, if you wake up at square one every day and experience varying levels of success, like Groundhog Day-- or if some people remain completely clueless about what others consider 'correct.'

Eh. All that about Sheldon Cooper. What is he, 50 now? Heh.

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I was thinking people with Aspberger's and similar syndromes that affect interpersonal interactions might be able to develop coping mechanisms, but I'm not sure how successful they are--& if that's a daily battle, if you wake up at square one every day and experience varying levels of success, like Groundhog Day-- or if some people remain completely clueless about what others consider 'correct.'

Eh. All that about Sheldon Cooper. What is he, 50 now? Heh.

Not diagnosed, left on your own, it depends on the individual and their history, if they learn to cope. Sheldon is at a different spot on the spectrum than I, and I don't watch it enough to develop a theory. In my case, I was in my fifties before I could react and converse in a near normal way. It was so simplistic at first, that even people who liked me kept it short, out of boredom. Over twenty years working a job that forced me and the customers to interact was my therapy. I didn't even realize it was Asperger's until late in the writing of a novella that involved autobiographical content. By then I had celebrated my 70th birthday and a bit more.

[co-creator] Prady has been asked about this a lot, and the short version is that, while Sheldon's personality - which was based on computer programmers Prady worked with years ago, well before Asperger's (a form of autism) was as common a diagnosis as it is today - certainly has traits in common with people with Asperger's, he would feel uncomfortable labeling Sheldon as such.

In the writers' minds, calling it Asperger's creates too much of a burden to get the details right. There's also the danger that the other characters' insults about Sheldon's behavior - in other words, 90 percent of the show's comedy - would seem mean if they were mocking a medical condition as opposed to generic eccentricity. In general, it's more responsibility than they feel a relatively light comedy can handle.

Although the Big Bang Theory states that Sheldon is not on the autism spectrum, Jim Parsons, who plays Sheldon on the show, has mentioned in several interviews how his character seems to exhibit some Asperger-like characteristics. Parsons isn’t the only person who has suggested that certain scientific minds show characteristics of Aspergers...