Talk:Cheese (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends)

message: While it would be long, would it be more appropriate to move this article to Cheese (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends)? --Crisu 04:44, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
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message: a few days ago there was some of cheeses quotes, who took them off and why?
:I removed them because they would be more suitable for Wikiquote. See Wikipedia:Quotations. Squirepants101 01:54, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  quotes 

message: Thanks to whomever attributed Cheese's behaviour to someone with Asperger's Syndrome. Sounds much better than just the base, and often demeaning, assumption that anyone who is neurodiverse is just "retarded". There's a spectrum of functionality, people! I think even though Lauren, didn't intend Cheese to represent people who have Asperger's Syndrome. 
Cheese is beloved by alot of people who have Asperger's Syndrome, including myself, because they see alot of the same odd humour that he has from when they were children. Like, that part in Mac Daddy, where Cheese goes "ba-dum-da-dum-da-dum-da-dum.....BWAAAAH!" scaring Mac & Bloo. I remember finding that absoultely ROFLOL as a kid. Also, alot of imitating things on TV, like Cheese pretending to stab Edwardo with a carrot in the shower. Also calling things either alternative names to their real names, or mixing real names up. Like how Cheese will call animals, by animal names different than the actual animal he's talking to. Like calling mice, doggies. Cheese remembering the tune to the code, for the alarm is alot like, how Aspie kids can choose to center focus in on something and then it's their main focus for a long time.
Another interesting aspect to Cheese is the part in The Big Cheese where, he's trying to get something off a high shelf. Wilt tries to help him, but Cheese keeps saying "NOOOO! I can do it!" I think that, because alot of children who are somewhere on the Autism spectrum, tend to be overprotected by their parents, it's a reflection of the frustration in dealing with that. The idea that you're older, but your mind still works at the level of a younger person..while you might, in the case of Asperger's Syndrome, be a total genius in an area. However, you also can't do something normal, like fry an egg.
So I think, remarkably, even though Lauren didn't intend to create a character that reflected the aspects of a Asperger's Syndrome child, inadvertently she did just that. Perhaps, because alot of aspects of what people associate with being "weird" or "geeky", are now considered generally characteristics of most Aspies. This is why, Asperger's Syndrome has been nicknamed "The Geek Syndrome", in publications about it. Another interesting thing, is that Louise who also seems, like an Aspie child, is in fact female. Since there is a strong predisposition to males having Asperger's Syndrome, people forget that to a smaller extent women can be Aspie too. There also is the idea, that because there is more pressure to conform in female culture, that women hide their Aspieness and therfore, never really are diagnosed. Violet yoshi 07:20, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cheese having Asperger's Syndrome