Farkle Minkus Character Analysis

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Farkle Minkus is one of three best friends of Riley Matthews from girl meet world. Farkle is well known for being a genius in his school. Just like his father Stuart Minkus, he cares about his education, that he actually likes to learn. He always keeps his grades up, and being a teacher’s pet to Corey Matthews also known as Riley’s father. His friends will describe him as a kind, colorful, confident person, and is always cheerful in all situation. Farkle is also socially awkward, he doesn 't know how to handle certain situation at times. He tends to miss a lot of social cues, doesn 't have the inability to understand love/emotion, and has a blind focus on topics. He can memorize facts and information easily, especially topics that are interesting …show more content…
Farkle time is phrase to describe a period of time in class, where he takes over the class to teachs variety of subjects he knows. Farkle can also be clumsy, when he doesn 't pay attention on what 's going around him. Farkle also has, the lack of giving eye contact with people around him. Farkle sometime doesn 't know how to show or give back emotion to a person. When Farkle took his IQ and aptitude test, they told him that he was a genius,He already knew that, but they also told him he has Asperger 's disorder.
Asperger Syndrome Disorder (ASD) was founded by Han asperger. Han identified the behavior and ability in asperger syndrome. He called it the autistic psychopathy. Asperger had a patterned that had lack of empathy, the inability to form friends, and have special interest in certain subjects, and they can also be clumsy. Asperger’s disorder is high functional end of autism. It can range from low to server. It was included in the diagnostic and statistical manual of the mental
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He knows what it feel like to be different. His friends considered him the most loyal guy they know. He being a genius like his father and being confident like his mother, he still goes through tough obstacles in his life. He is the most-lovable character in the show. The other reason i pick him was his over protective of his friends and family. He also has asperger 's disorder, he couldn’t making friends easily. It was really hard for him to try to be normal because of his disorder he had. He thought that he’s friends would judge him for not being normal. The reason i choose the disorder was because, in the show they talk about asperger 's symtron. I wanted to learn more about the disorder farkle had. Like how to they behave or act around people. How do they handle their situation when they have one. For example when Farkle was in class they talked about world war 2, Farkle knew everything about world war 2, because he was interested about that topic. The teacher tell him it 's Farkle time, this is where he goes in front of the classroom and talk about the subject he knows. He will go on and on about it, that when teachers has to stop farkle time because he was going to fast. Farkle didn 't notice he was going so fast, he just want to take all the information he know about the topic. When i researched some of the symptoms, it said that they tend to talk really fast that they don 't notice because

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