Answer (1 of 2): Oh, this is pretty old. Even more extraordinary is that Shaun's statement that Zack was misdiagnosed before collapsing from his injuries leads Claire to successfully replicate Shaun's thought processes to see through his eyes and save Zack's life. This page summarizes crowd sourced ratings of their personality collected from users of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz. Seeking advice from Claire with the situation, Shaun questions whether he could ever be a good father because he has doubts that he could offer the right kind of emotional support to his own child. Glassman tries to act as devils advocate and wants to encourage Shaun to forgive Lea, reiterating that she did what she did out of love and the will to protect Shaun. Shaun acts as first responder, saving the life of a pregnant woman with an acute cardiac problem whom he keeps treating at the hospital for the injuries she sustained. Shaun lives in a small, somewhat dinky apartment where he soon runs into his neighbor Lea who knocks on his door to borrow batteries for her PlayStation controller that she urgently needs to finish the Uncharted game (Oliver). After a patient makes him famous through the Internet for saving her life in ". Even though hes rejected the notion in the past, he knows now that Dr. Glassman is more of a father to him than his biological one ever was, and he finally finds a way to express that to Glassman while the latter tries to help Shaun get dressed up in his tux. Shaun is then forced to treat pregnant mother-to-be Viola who suffers complications requiring a C-section. Shaun takes flirting advice from Claire and secretly seeks treatment for his injuries with the help of Doctor Carly Lever, his old boss from pathology. Carly determines that a genetic mutation is causing James' condition, but there are over forty possible drugs that could be used to treat it. Shortly after Lim ends their friendship, Shaun begins rearranging his and Park's shared office furniture, leading to him and Park clashing before moving into a disused storage room as his private office. Shaun questions whether this indicates a problem in their relationship, but Lea insists its just a dry spell and itll blow over because theyve both been busy. Lim eventually helps Shaun figure it out by comparing his focus on sex to Shaun's focus on surgery. Wanting to teach Shaun how to properly end a date, she explains to him that if a girl hesitates outside the door when theyre about to part, its the right moment to initiate a kiss and wants Shaun to kiss her. During Shaun's first attempt at a lead surgery, it is Park who recognizes that Shaun isn't having a meltdown but rather that he has seen something that he is having trouble expressing to the other doctors. In "Quarantine," a buzzing light and the stressful situation caused Shaun to go into sensory overload and collapse into the fetal position; Morgan was able to get him through it by getting him focused on surgery and Park realized what was causing Shauns distraction and eliminated the source by smashing the light. by borrowing Shauns large flatscreen TV to play PlayStation with his friends or illicitly using Shauns cable TV access. After a bit of a journey, it is finally determined through a biopsy Glassman was reluctant to get that he has an operable low-grade glioma that is treatable with surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Over the course of the first few episodes, we watch Shaun trying to settle into his new life and new challenges as a surgical resident. Shaun finally succeeds in pleasuring Carly during sex who is left with a blissed-out smile on her face as Shaun sleeps next to her. At the end of the day, Glassman tells Shaun that he intends to speed up his cancer treatment and recognizes that Shaun still has feelings for Lea, telling Shaun that he deserves to be happy. At one point, Shaun lived with a distant foster mother who was fond of saying "tough titmouse" in response to a challenging situation. However, this time its on Carly's side due to still being upset over Shaun and Lea's night in Wyoming. Upon Shaun failing to connect with the imaginative aspects of phone sex, he finally comes to the realization how much he misses having Lea near him. RELATED: 5 Best Korean Remakes Of American Movies/TV (& 5 Vice Versa) As a result, Shaun didn't see or speak to his parents again until much later in life. They both agree that they have a whole lot of things they need to work through in terms of their individual insecurities. He is shown as being fond of cats. Shaun is disconcerted by Glassmans absence and misses his guidance and advice. He also gave Shaun a small toy scalpel, which would be treasured for years to come. Carly has Shaun touch one of her breasts for the first time, exciting Shaun who tells Carly that she has no sign of lumps. However, whether or not Glassman is right about how Shaun is behaving, he does genuinely appear to be bothered by having potentially caused his friend's paralysis and the fallout for it to the point that it literally keeps him up at night on at least one occasion, leading to Shaun having an unexpected epiphany and coming up with a possible solution for Lim. Lea also sees how much Shaun is wrestling with the new performance rating system. "Turn Me On" - Shaun Murphy Band "Reason To Try" - Shaun Murphy Band "Feels Like Rain" - Opening for Bob Seger "Be Good To Yourself" Live at Callahan's Music Hall, Detroit Come be a part of our adventures! In "Growing Pains," Shaun's combination of empathy and blunt honesty results in his patient and his mother reconciling with each other, impressing Lim who states that conflict resolution is an important quality for an attending physician. Despite Andrews' reservations that Shaun is not ready, Shaun proves himself to be extremely capable, even correcting a complication without outside input. Another problem Shaun often has is with romantic relationships. He displays several traits of his condition, including heightened sensory sensitivity, abnormal inflection when speaking, lack of interest in eye contact, and heavy reliance on routine. To Shaun's excitement, Carly calls herself his girlfriend and the two officially define their relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend. Meanwhile the hospitals board deliberates whether they should be hiring a surgeon with autism, with an initial decision made against it. Shaun and his brother ran to the nearest "doctor place" (as Steve called it), where they met Aaron Glassman for the first time. Shaun thus being evasive and distant upsets Lea who returned to San Jose in hopes of finding support from her friend after a bad experience in Hershey. The two also share a very easy working relationship, quickly falling back into working together and bouncing ideas off of each other like no time at all has passed. Sophie is currently developing a reality show that features atypical couples, and she wants Shaun and Lea for her pilot. He eventually decides that the billboard can stay up. When there are severe complications, they have to perform an emergency C-section with the 26-weeks-old baby not getting enough oxygen. Portrayed by: At the same time, in the aftermath of his confrontation with Lim, Shaun appears to be secretly struggling, although he does his best to hide it. Glassman's own anger and frustration causes him to begin avoiding Shaun while Lim ends their friendship completely. In "Hard Heart," unlike Park, Shaun is unable to see young patient Nathan as anything more than a patient despite Park looking at the case from the perspective of a parent as well as a doctor. Shaun eventually realizes that he has trouble being intimate and vulnerable, but still can't have sex with Carly. Shaun is eventually allowed to speak in front of the board, and his moving speech has the board members rescind their decision and Shaun is welcomed into St. Bonaventures residency program under the condition that if he is anything less than excellent, Dr. Glassman will have to give up his position as hospital president. A particularly stressful situation arises in Apple, when one morning Lea bursts into Shauns apartment and stress-eats his last apple, complaining vocally about how the landlord shut off her power the night before because she was playing her music too loud. With things back to a semblance of normalcy, Shauns workday routine evens out again. With Lea still living in her own apartment, Shaun temporarily invites Dr. Alex Park to move into the guest room and they live together for several weeks. Though Lim agrees to have Park deliver the devastating news at Shaun's request, Andrews forces Shaun to go through with it, causing Beth to have Shaun thrown off the case. However, Shaun helps Park find a solution for Nathan that can be done in a single surgery rather than multiple ones. Olivia is capable, but isn't confident. She tells Shaun that they both need to think about whether this is the right time to raise a child. In 2017, he landed roles such as recurring character Nathan Burgle in Fargo, Tommy Walters in the film Woody Woodpecker, and the role of young Shaun Murphy in The Good Doctor. Together, the two take an unsanctioned road trip in Leas vintage car while Glassman worries about an AWOL and radio-silent Shaun. Jared also reveals that he had carried Shaun's words before they parted with him that he would one day find happiness. After he starts dating Carly Lever, Shaun is comfortable with her kissing him, but not with holding hands. Shaun and Danny's difference of opinion over a xenotransplant nearly leads Shaun to fire her before changing his mind after getting some advice from Lim. After one of his mistakes in leadership costs a patient his life as Shaun does not check on Asher's work, Shaun refuses to continue training residents until Lim makes Shaun talk Asher through a procedure on another patient. Andrews advice to Shaun proves helpful as he tries to figure out his feelings, but he later suffers an emotional breakdown in Glassman's office out of fear that everyone will get sick of him and ultimately leave. A feel good show for some, an inspiration for many, The Good Doctor was inspired from a South Korean medical drama of the same name. Leas own relationship with her parents hasnt always been the best, her parents tend to negatively judge all the boyfriends she has, thinking she is only dating certain types to get under their skin. St. Bonaventure Hospital Shaun's unique diagnostic skills are noted by many characters, including Dr. Jackson Han who displays prejudice against Shaun for his autism. Shaun makes it clear that he wishes to remain a surgeon despite the problems that come with his communication skills. At the same time, Lim calls Carly in on the case of James McDougall who has swelling due to fluid buildup. In "The Family," despite his initial reluctance to form personal connections with his patients, he becomes close with Isla Liu, opening up to her about his guilt over Steve's death to help Isla with her own guilt. As a result of his autism, Shaun has trouble with cognitive empathy, but is fine with emotional empathy, meaning he can pick up when someone is upset but often has trouble discerning why, this is something that he himself notes. Shaun is pretty oblivious to the trouble hes in and tells Glassman he would like to give two weeks notice because he will move to Hershey to continue his residency there. The two ultimately reconcile and move in together. Shaun immediately comes to the rescue and instructs a fellow doctor how to perform life-saving measures, making on-the-spot diagnoses that seem unusually pertinent but ultimately save the boys life. Lea seems happy with that, but admits to Shaun later that shes also disappointed that shes not going to have a more ceremonial white-dress wedding a concern that Shaun voices to Dr. Glassman. His attending and direct boss, Dr. Melendez, thinks Shaun has a significant deficit and Shaun will never do anything more than suction under his supervision. Shauns attire of (not his) choice requires a cummerbund that he finds incredibly restrictive and uncomfortable, and Lea realizes last minute that theyve been hiding the truth from each other that they dont actually want to go through with a big TV wedding, theyd rather celebrate their special day in a way that both are comfortable and happy with. As a resident at St. Bonaventure, he must learn the ropes of hospital work, while facing unique challenges and embracing his strengths due to his diagnoses of autism and savant syndrome. While Shaun is unable to contribute his knowledge, Claire replicates the conditions behind Shaun's thought processes with Zack and manages to figure out what Shaun had been trying to tell him, realizing that he was actually trying to say "treponema." Lea tries to tell him that he should be embracing life and that hell never be happy if he constantly lives in fear. Park realizes that Shaun actually saw something and is having trouble communicating it. Shaun takes this news hard. On the way to San Jose, arriving at the airport, Shaun is witness to a freak accident that injures a boy. In "Hurt," after an earthquake, Shaun desperately tries to reach Lea without success, eventually finding a trapped woman named Vera who was also left heartbroken by a relationship. Shaun and Leas relationship grows and flourishes over the course of the season, which Shaun supporting Leas business endeavors when she partners with Jordan and Glassman on the gut monitoring sensor they want to develop (Growing Pains). She's like Shaun, but also the opposite. At the end of the episode, he accompanies Lea home but she collapses outside of the hospital with intense lower belly pain. This eventually results in the patients death, with both Asher and Shaun blaming themselves for their errors in communication. After hearing a patient describe what Shaun looked like in "Trampoline" before he collapsed, Claire immediately realized what had happened without having been witness to it for herself. Lea and Shaun sleep in separate beds that night, and in the morning Shaun is outside in the parking lot, pacing and lamenting that he made a mistake and he will never be good enough for anything. In doing so, Shaun made Claire a better doctor because he inspired her to look through his eyes and save a life. Here are some lesser-known facts about the prodigal medical practitioner. As a surgical attending, Shaun proves himself to be an effective leader of his own team and good at dealing with his patients, both of which had been a concern that Andrews had raised while arguing against hiring Shaun as a resident, although Shaun still turns to his friends and mentors for advice. In the later years of his residency, Shaun's greater experience with patients leads to him becoming more visibly empathetic and less blunt, at one point only agreeing to deliver a bluntly honest diagnosis because Lim, as his boss, orders him to do so. I am not sure Freddie Highmore is neurotypical. Shaun goes to a nearby grocery store to buy more apples and gets held at gunpoint in a robbery. Shaun recognizes Liams sensory issues and urges the medical staff not to touch him when Liam is brought in in an agitated state. Seeing all the colleagues around him either quitting their jobs, he comes to the realization that he doesnt want to keep working at St. Bons if none of his friends are there anymore, so he convinces both Lea and Glassman that its the right thing for him to stand up and fight together with all of them. After Julianne crashes on the table, she believes that she has a near-death experience while Shaun believes it to only be a symptom of a second, hidden tumor that can't be detected on imaging. This brings the cowbell into the mix, which Shaun wants them to ring if either of them ever feels they are veering off-course. Shaun puts the baseball on display on his shelf, next to the framed photo of him and Steve. Shaun came to feel he made the wrong decision as the patient suffered a complication that almost killed him, but Park revealed that Shaun's actions actually saved the young man's life as he had been planning suicide beforehand. When Tara hesitates to take gene therapy that could potentially cure her condition, Shaun relates to her his own struggles with being alone and how his life is much better now that he has friends in his life and convinces Tara to take the treatment. Before The Good Doctor, many shows and movies relegated characters with autism as being "other.". In Not The Same, Shaun pitches the idea for Lea to move back in, but Lea is reluctant since she believes it will be different if they live together as a romantic couple because she isnt sure that theyre having a high enough level of commitment and trust yet. Shaun, however, realizes that hes not exactly happy with not having actual plans for the wedding, so he tells Lea that he wants to at least have an idea when theyll start planning the wedding again. While Shaun turns out to be wrong about Nakano having made a mistake, he is correct about there being a problem and he stops the surgery in time to save the patient. In Islands, Part 2, Shaun returns to work where Glassman is livid that he just up and left, berating him that he cant be this irresponsible and that it may have cost him his job if Glassman hadnt lied for Shaun. This manifests in strange behavior such as repeatedly moving around his and Park's office furniture and moving out of their shared office into a disused storage closet for privacy. When Jared returns to working at the hospital, Shaun is specifically stated to greatly want Jared for his surgical team, something that goes a long way with convincing Lim to give him the job. Despite this, Shaun has genuine feelings for Carly as shown when she asked him to speak with her instead of ignoring Carly if he had feelings for her at all. However, a vision of Steve urges Shaun to let go of his guilt over Steve's death, reassuring Shaun that it wasn't his fault. Lea seeks Shaun out as he is having pancakes in the cafeteria, wanting to talk to him about breaking off the marriage. However, Danni's difficulties with her attendings aren't just limited to Shaun as she refuses to learn from her mistakes or compromise, something that is later noted by Andrews before her firing by Lim. Shaun succeeds in saving both of his patients and later shares a rare hug with Glassman after learning of Glassman's meningitis diagnosis. Shaun loses out on his first lead surgery, instead guiding Lim and Andrews through the procedure he uncovered. At the same time, Carly reveals to Shaun that she did not enjoy their sex as Shaun failed to give her an orgasm. 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