"My son is watching Curious George and the narrator just said, 'Sometimes girls and monkeys think alike.' I think I need to find a new show for him."I thought that was pretty funny, albeit a little weird. But that's not as strange as this...
About a month ago my friend and I went to her mom's house on a Saturday to work on a sewing project, and her younger sister was watching Arthur in the living room. On the show, a little kid was disturbed by his classmate who was sitting in the corner with his knees pulled up to his chest, rocking back and forth and moaning. When he asked his teacher what was wrong, she explained that the boy in the corner had Asperger's Syndrome. The entire episode was about this kid with Asperger's and how he kept acting really strangely.
I mean, I'm all for open awareness, but is it just me or are kid's shows getting weirder these days? This astronaut alien analogy from that Arthur episode will show you what I'm talking about:
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