SpongeBob SquarePants is autistic, voice actor says: 'That's his superpower'

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Tom Kenny, the actor who voices SpongeBob SquarePants, revealed that the animated character is autistic.

“I said, ‘Yes of course. Of course he is,’ ” the comedian recalled. “I said, ‘You know what? That’s his superpower, the same way that’s your superpower.’ ““I don’t know what there is in that show that talks to kids that are on the autism spectrum, but more than other cartoons… because SpongeBob as a character is a little autistic,” Kenny said at the time.. “You go, ‘Oh, I know this guy. I can embody this guy.’ I feel like there’s some shared DNA between me and this character.

“Sometime in 1997ish, Stephen Hillenburg showed me some drawings he had done for a show that he was thinking about pitching to Nickelodeon about a good-hearted sponge, his dumb sea star friend, a greedy crab boss, a cranky squid neighbor, a teeny tiny enemy and a Texas squirrel that’s gone subaquatic,” Kenny said in his speech.

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