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'The Good Doctor' Star Freddie Highmore Says He Hopes the Show Changed 'Perceptions Around Autism' (Exclusive)
The seventh and final season of ABC's 'The Good Doctor' premieres on Feb. 20.
Freddie Highmore hopes that his series The Good Doctor helped to move the needle when it comes to discussions around autism spectrum disorder in its seven-season run on ABC. During the Saturday TCA panel, ABC showed a clip from the upcoming season -- which prominently featured Kayla Cromer, an actress with autism spectrum disorder, who joins the series as Charlene "Charlie" Lukaitis, a medical student who idolizes Highmore's character. In a post on Instagram from January, Cromer, 25, shared her excitement to join the show and said she could not be more thrilled to bring her own experience with autism spectrum disorder to the long-running series.
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