re: MTV board's thoughts about The Middle

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That damned Brick kid gets on my nerves....he's like 16 and supposedly book smart, but they have him playing a 6th or 7th grader.

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Yeah, Atticus Shaffer who plays Brick is playing a younger character,

SO what.

Eden Sher(Sue Heck) is 23-24 years old, and Charlie McDermott (Axl Heck) is actually a little younger than her though his character is older.

You thought they were teenagers?

And the "not the sharpest tool in the shed" Darrin character, boyfriend of Sue, is played by a guy that holds a B.A from Loyola in New Orleans, John Gammon.


I'm glad Atticus Shaffer is working,(and doing a good job at that) and not sitting around collecting disability like he could.

He has brittle bone disease (type IV osteogenesis imperfecta). He walks with a limp because he's broken bones in his legs so many times, and he doesn't GO to school, he's home-schooled.

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And his nasally voice irritates the shite outta me.

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The high pitched nasally voice?

A big reason he sounds like he does IS because of the disease he has.


By the way, there's a few regions around the country that have a nasal-type accent, and part of "The Middle" is one of them.