"Brick", of the show "the middle"

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Whenever the subject of aspie/autistic characters in film and in TV comes up I always want to mention this -but i always forget the name of the show and of the character.

So here it is- my contribution to the population of alledged aspies of TV land: the little boy named "Brick" in the TV sitcom "the Middle".

Its a show about a lower middleclass couple in the midwest trying to raise their three kids in the burbs. Pretty funny and good show.

The youngest is the odd little gradeschool boy named "brick" who is socially awkward- who has exactly one friend- even geekier than himself. He has odd savant-like skills like a photographic memory.

So. Brick- aspie or not?

He's my favorite character on the show! I'd say he is. I would've been his friend when I was a kid and made him look like the normal one.

He's got to be!

They're such lazy parents, the mom said in one episode that they just never got around to getting him diagnosed; but I would say he is definitely an Aspie, and my favorite on that show.

Brick is my favorite TV Aspie. As much as I enjoy Sheldon Cooper on Big Bang, I find Brick to be a more realistic portrayal.

I mentioned Brick in a previous thread as a positive alternative to cartoon autistic characters. Sheldon on "Big Bang Theory" is funny but negative. Also the wiki page says his creators didn't set out for him to be autistic, just "Sheldoney". Tom Hardy's character in "The Drop" or even the wife in the movie "Up" would be better examples than Sheldon because some of his behavior is very crass