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Lister's dancing in that sequence is hilariously bad.

"Gimme a break I sure deserve it
it's time I made my way to the toooop!"

So much of the cultural understanding of autism is about the lack of social skills, but from my specific vantage point as a parent of an ASD pre-schooler, social skills are so far from what I (or my kid's classmates' parents) worry about right now. I would be THRILLED if my kid grew up to be a Sheldon Cooper, because

Jesus, I think your aunt must be the school shrink who tried to slap "autism" on my son because he avoided her creepy stare. Kid has no trouble making eye contact with anyone else.

It's not just parents. My older son got thrown out of two preschools, and both  schools insisted there was something "wrong" with him, even after a developmental pediatrician and child psychologist disagreed. We tried a third preschool and he's thriving.  He just needed extra time to catch up developmentally. Point

I have difficulty making eye contact, and I'm convinced that it's because my attention-seeking, wanna-be-diva mother cannot converse with anyone without boring into their soul with her beady little blue eyes. Even while driving. It's so off-putting, I learned to hate most eye contact because of that. I am far from

I wish I could parlay my various pop culture obsessions into more popularity with my students. There's always, like, three per class who seem to pick up on my references. The others just stare at me, because it's community college ("associate professor…it means 'less than' ") and half of them are older than me.

35-year-old mom of two and a professor, and I got an AT calendar and a Finn doll for Xmas from my siblings. I'm not even an animation fan or anything. My 5-year-old got hooked on Tom & Jerry reruns on CN while visiting his grandma, and then I got sucked into AT because of the non-stop Adventure Time commercials during

They're not getting rid of Aspergers, they're just re-naming it autism. It's all just going to be degrees of autism now.

Between the video, this thread, and the cancerAIDS thread, I laughed so hard I couldn't breathe. The resulting hooting noises that came out of me so alarmed my five-year-old that he came running in from the other room.

"New Age feel-goodery" is our go-to term of derision for the expensive preschool that expelled our kid for being "unfocused".  Thanks, AD.

"New Age feel-goodery" is our go-to term of derision for the expensive preschool that expelled our kid for being "unfocused".  Thanks, AD.

Made the mistake of watching that scene just after my first son was born, when I was in the throes of post-partum "baby blues" (to put it mildly).  I am still embarassed at the memory of how much I cried over that.

Made the mistake of watching that scene just after my first son was born, when I was in the throes of post-partum "baby blues" (to put it mildly).  I am still embarassed at the memory of how much I cried over that.

It's "This Spinal Tap" that got me.

It's "This Spinal Tap" that got me.

His reading of the "Things with fat in them taste better" line was fantastic.

His reading of the "Things with fat in them taste better" line was fantastic.

The way she ran away in terror when she found out Tammy I was around.  That made me laugh oh, so hard.

The way she ran away in terror when she found out Tammy I was around.  That made me laugh oh, so hard.