'The Undateables' - UK TV series

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If you can hang on for a little while, I may have the correct episode.

No, I've posted all of the episodes to date. Apart, that is, from this catch-up ep.

Sounds like a freakshow for "the perfect people" to get a laugh from...

watch it be4 you judge.

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"Twenty-six-year-old Michael is determined to find someone to love, but is struggling to hold down a relationship. Despite having had 17 girlfriends in the past, some of whom lasted only a few days, his autism means that even holding a conversation with a girl can be a huge challenge.


This is an interesting programme that's just started it's second series in the UK, on Channel 4.

Most people think the term 'Undateables' is bad and I tend to agree - it's rather offensive and untrue as many of the people in the show have had partners in the past.

There seem to be more autistic/Asperger people in this 2nd series

I wondered what peoples' opinion was of Michael

Also, Sarah's problems are similar to the difficulties of Aspergers in a way, in terms of her not being able to communicate in the expected manner.

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yeah i agree to some extent of this debate but some of what people are writing are a bit too narrow minded and false.
These programmes are good for people not just across the spectrum but in this country who deserve a voice and to stand up for themselves as to not let others take a premature view of them or their situation.

i enjoyed the first episode in the second series where i think michael is trying his best to convey how he feels about dating in general terms and what he would like to find in a partner. i believe that the match he recieved was maybe unsuited to him as i thought he would have been paired with an aspie girl but still..
and Damien was okay but i feel that the agency worker was a bit untoward towards him and his path towards true love.

Heather was 37 and had ocd, a condition i can associate with as my mother has it and i can see why she'd find it difficult despite her learning difficulties, did she work? i cant remember.

and last but not least i think the older guy with aspergers was being a bit unrealistic about the mileage he could have covered perhaps with someone if he found it too difficult to travel alone. (i struggle with long distances but am fine with journeys approx an hour).

Of course the others had their own sense of rough times but why do these programmes inhibit the viewers attention on where the true encounter lays? and why do 'outsiders' feel that the growth market on the subject of disabilites has had its day and its therefore time to backdown and let the corn reap the harvest or so to speak. sorry but if no one is gonna stand up to some of these agencies and what they believe in then dont you feel that someone has got to.
there ought to be a marginal outline for them so they know who they are dealing with.

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I don't really like the title 'undateables' either

Even though I have never had a girlfriend in my life, I'd prefer not to think of myself as undateable.