Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock

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If anyone has ever seen Fraggle Rock, You Might know boober fraggle, one of the main fraggle five. He acts a lot like me and i think that is why i have a crush on him. He Is Shy, Quiet and doesn't like noise as much as the other fraggles. i have suspected that he might have autism. If anyone thinks he does, please leave a comment.

On the basis that I used to watch Fraggle Rock as a child, when there was much less understanding of what Autism was, I don't think that the writers intended it that way.

But- they may have based their characters on different types of personalities that were seen in school children. He may have been based on a kind of shy and quiet child, who at that time would not have been diagnosed (like me). So I think it is possible that he was written with certain characteristics, which we now undertand better and recognise as autistic characteristics. (I like that way that rhymes!)

I also think it's totally awesome that you have a crush on a fraggle, and not one of the obvious ones!

Unless it was the creator's intention to make a character aspie or autistic I try not to think that they are.

Boober was quite a pessimist, really afraid of germs, and his favorite pastimes were doing laundry and cooking - but he wasn't very good at cooking.

I liked Wembly the best. He was apparently the youngest and was cute, enthusiastic, and always had a hard time making up his mind, so much so that his friends called it "wembling". He also had a lot of allergies, but it didn't seem to bother him much.