What the Ass Burger?

Written on March 10, 2010 by momfluential in Your Stories

Following the airing of the new NBC Show Parenthood last night, “Assburgers syndrome” rose to #3 on Google as a trending search topic. One of the characters in the show was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome. Asperger’s syndrome appears to be on the rise. It’s a diagnosis that we’ve heard multiple times in my family, amongst friends and in the news. I’m curious to see what the show will do with it. Hopefully calling attention to the syndrome in a prime time show will prove to be a positive choice. In the meantime, I’m going to call attention to the lack of common sense and spelling issues of the masses who google. Clearly this is an issue alive and looming in the mainstream population. “Assburgers” people? Come on!

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3 Comments - Leave a comment!
  • http://selfishmom.com SelfishMom

    I think “Ass Burgers” are those huge burgers at fast food restaurants that make your ass fat when you eat them.

  • http://specialsauceinthehouse.blogspot.com Cheryl

    Assburgers? Clearly searched out by total asshats. Who have just eaten at Fat Burger.

    Ugh.

  • http://www.cookienotes.blogspot.com Scatteredmom

    Kids are extraordinarily cruel. Besides calling anyone slightly different “retarded”, for awhile a bunch were calling kids at my son’s school “autistic.” Then they were going around telling other kids that particular kids had autism.

    They didn’t. My son doesn’t have autism, and yet kids were constantly saying he did.

    Personally, I think that things like learning disabilities and such should be talked about with kids in schools. All that kids know is that these children are different, and they don’t understand why, so they make fun of them. They hear about diagnoses like ADHD or autism (or whatever is popular at the time) and then apply to whoever seems a bit different. Instead we keep it a big secret, which in my opinion, makes the problem worse. Jake is forever trying to explain dyspraxia to other kids, who then just say he’s ‘retarded’. Drives me NUTS.

    Besides that, Jake can defend himself. A kid w/ Aspergers isn’t going to get the whole social thing, and that is very sad.