Saturday, 03 April 2010

• The Return of Purple Man

  For all those new to this blog, let me answer a few of your burning questions.
  
  First, "Just Because My Pickle Talks Doesn't Make Me An Idiot" is a phrase my son, Jonathan, used to say when he was a preschooler. He has Asperger's Syndrome, which is a high functioning form of autism. He has this diagnosis because he has issues with language and social skills.
  
  No one knew what Jonathan was communicating with the above phrase. When I ask him now, he doesn't even know what he was saying back then. Our family is convinced that it was something profound...way beyond the average human being's ability to understand.
  
  Second, Jonathan has been drawing a comic book character called "Purple Man" for close to five years now. Many, but not all people with Asperger's Syndrome, become experts in some area. Jonathan has become an expert in Purple Man. He dresses like Purple Man. He sketched out a Purple Man amusement park. He created a Purple Man Monopoly game, a Purple Man trading card game, and Purple Man Legos. He eats off a Purple Man plate he painted at a Paint 'N Pottery place. We had a drawing done of Jonathan dressed as Purple Man for the blog. 

  
  
  Purple Man wears a funky purple baseball cap with streamers down the back. He also wears a purple cape with black horizontal strips. According to Jonathan, Purple Man is so "awesome" he needs TWO sidekicks. So one is "Perfeckto," who looks like a black ninja and one is called "Purple" who is just like Purple Man but is only two inches tall and doesn't have a cape. Their nemeses are "Snakehair" (whose hair is a two-headed snake, one head by each of Snakehair's ears) and "Apple Man" (I don't know too much about Apple Man). Purple Man can fly and is strong. Perfeckto is fast. I don't know Purple's super power.
  
  Without further ado, let me show you Jonathan's newest Purple Man comic strip:
  
  

  

  
  
  Just in case you need a little help interrupting this: Purple Man is working out with his punching bag. Perfeckto (not seen) calls up "Package!" Purple Man says to bring it up, but Perfeckto declares his power is speed and not strength. Purple Man goes down to help. Purple Man says the package is light because it is only 200 tons. They open the package to discover it is 200 tons of tacos. They realize the tacos are for two inch tall Purple, and let him know that his tacos arrived.
  
  This is funny to me, because Jonathan can put away six tacos easily. He's a picky eater and doesn't eat much, so six tacos is a lot for him to eat in one meal. And thinking about a 2 inch sidekick eating 2 tons of tacos makes me laugh.
  
  Here is a link of Jonathan and his siblings acting out Purple Man, Perfeckto and Purple for a soap commercial for Lee, the Hotflash Queen's La Dee Dah soaps. This for those new to the blog. Others may or may not enjoy seeing it again.
  

  
  

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