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For the Fans of the BBC/PBS series Are You Being Served?
We lost John Inman, Mr. Hummphries this week at the age of 71.
Mr. Humphries was the main character in a wonderful 70's based show taking place in a London Department Store. Mr. Humphries did a lot to get the message gay is normal out to the world. His Character often saved the sale, made the day or united the staff of Grace Brothers Department store. His charm charisma and class made for a wonderful example of Gay is normal. The other characters in the show played off his character and that show did wonders in uniting straight and gay folks all over the world. And who can forget Mrs. Scloumb's Hair do's? Was Mrs. Scloumb the First Fag Hag on TV? They even mentioned the famous "Who Shot JR., sensation over the worldwide TV hit in the late 1970s, Dallas. (Texas Oil Family loaded with money.) The Last Episode of Dallas one year was cliff hanger as the main Character was shot and the world spent the summer deciding who shot the evil character.
Once the Gay was put into context and seen as normal every character in the show even the very straight Mr. Grace the stores owner loved Mr. Humphries. This was radical TV in the 1970s. Ironically there are still stations in America's homophobic Midwest that still will not air that show ,and this is 2007.
Autistically socially many of us getting our much needed Gay Charm school to bridge the gap between the social ineptness of autism and the real world all kind of experienced a situation similar to the one Mr. Humphries presented in Are You Being Served? Many of us growing up before GLBT was cool and in an era of no GLBT clubs or Gay Straight Alliances were forced loners in real life. In other words being Gay I was "forced" in to friend ship with other Gay people at school. We typically were the loners that met in the end of the all ate lunch together and became friends for suriveal. What other autistic person gets forced into a deep friendships. The GLBT folks were much more forgiving of our autism traits than normal people were and even worked with us and groomed our social skill. That might have been in an effort to not in embarrass them even more or simply a real caring and insight that Normal people are a bit too rigid.
Keep in Mind we had the best of everything NONE of us were cursed with the Autism Dx-we were still largely on our own and our Splinter Skill learning was still in effect before modern Autism took it away. Natural functioning autism coupled with our Intense Charm School lesions made every one of us the success we are today. When the book of life is written and autism finally learns of our success even they will have to admit we changed the property values of Autism. Meanwhile figured out autism is lost in the billion dollar empire Rain Man left behind. Even worse, the diagnosed Autism folks of today are further hampered by the MR/DD attitude that prevails in Autism. They never even get the chances we had to be social and spread our wings.
If Autism has a manual of how it was done in the book The Enigma (Hodges 1983) It has our Social Course on tape in the form of the reruns of Are You being Served? Indeed I learned many social clues and zingers and charms from that show. Thank You, John Inman AKA, Mr. Humphries.
We lost John Inman, Mr. Hummphries this week at the age of 71.
Mr. Humphries was the main character in a wonderful 70's based show taking place in a London Department Store. Mr. Humphries did a lot to get the message gay is normal out to the world. His Character often saved the sale, made the day or united the staff of Grace Brothers Department store. His charm charisma and class made for a wonderful example of Gay is normal. The other characters in the show played off his character and that show did wonders in uniting straight and gay folks all over the world. And who can forget Mrs. Scloumb's Hair do's? Was Mrs. Scloumb the First Fag Hag on TV? They even mentioned the famous "Who Shot JR., sensation over the worldwide TV hit in the late 1970s, Dallas. (Texas Oil Family loaded with money.) The Last Episode of Dallas one year was cliff hanger as the main Character was shot and the world spent the summer deciding who shot the evil character.
Once the Gay was put into context and seen as normal every character in the show even the very straight Mr. Grace the stores owner loved Mr. Humphries. This was radical TV in the 1970s. Ironically there are still stations in America's homophobic Midwest that still will not air that show ,and this is 2007.
Autistically socially many of us getting our much needed Gay Charm school to bridge the gap between the social ineptness of autism and the real world all kind of experienced a situation similar to the one Mr. Humphries presented in Are You Being Served? Many of us growing up before GLBT was cool and in an era of no GLBT clubs or Gay Straight Alliances were forced loners in real life. In other words being Gay I was "forced" in to friend ship with other Gay people at school. We typically were the loners that met in the end of the all ate lunch together and became friends for suriveal. What other autistic person gets forced into a deep friendships. The GLBT folks were much more forgiving of our autism traits than normal people were and even worked with us and groomed our social skill. That might have been in an effort to not in embarrass them even more or simply a real caring and insight that Normal people are a bit too rigid.
Keep in Mind we had the best of everything NONE of us were cursed with the Autism Dx-we were still largely on our own and our Splinter Skill learning was still in effect before modern Autism took it away. Natural functioning autism coupled with our Intense Charm School lesions made every one of us the success we are today. When the book of life is written and autism finally learns of our success even they will have to admit we changed the property values of Autism. Meanwhile figured out autism is lost in the billion dollar empire Rain Man left behind. Even worse, the diagnosed Autism folks of today are further hampered by the MR/DD attitude that prevails in Autism. They never even get the chances we had to be social and spread our wings.
If Autism has a manual of how it was done in the book The Enigma (Hodges 1983) It has our Social Course on tape in the form of the reruns of Are You being Served? Indeed I learned many social clues and zingers and charms from that show. Thank You, John Inman AKA, Mr. Humphries.
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