We are being laughed at. A ranty article purely for debating purposes.

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Sorry Leviatham, I disagree with you as well. I don't think TBBT is disrespecting geeks. I also find it hard to believe that the average person believes that Sheldon Cooper is anything more than an extreme caricature and not anything close to what your average science geek is like.

Did you just call Aspies caricatures?

A lot of people in my family are just like Sheldon and Amy (exchange interests and field of work, of course). I actually have a cousin who is JUST like that, down to toilet time calculations and what beverage has to be offered when (though his ideas about it are quite different). He's an engineer for BMW. They now call him Sheldon 2, which irritates him as he doesn't watch TV other than news and science/SF shows, because it's "way below his level."

On my autism forums, a lot of families who have to put up with the Sheldons and Amys in their lives watch TBBT much like reality TV. It always hits home.