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Artie Abrams

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Artie Abrams is a guitarist and paraplegic manual wheelchair user. Artie uses a wheelchair due to a spinal cord injury he received in a car crash at the age of eight. During the first season, he begins to accept his disability and the fact he will never achieve his dream of becoming a dancer.
In the first season, he has a relationship with fellow New Directions member Tina Cohen-Chang, who breaks up with him at the beginning of the second season. Then, Artie begins dating cheerleader Brittany Pierce. The two remain a couple for most of the season before breaking up.
In the third season, Artie, then a junior, directs the school musical and a television special featuring the glee club for the local PBS station. He also directs Grease along with Finn Hudson during his senior year. He gets accepted into a film school in New York.
He later starts dating Kitty, who encourages him to keep their affair secret. But later, she reveals it to the Glee Club as she is sure about her love for him. Though he is the primary candidate for being the valedictorian, he loses it to Blaine as a result of his sacrifice for Tina.
He goes to New York after his graduation and joins film school. He returns to Lima in season six to help Brittany and Santana plan their wedding. After Tina's proposal to Mike Chang is rejected, Artie promises that if they are both single in ten years that they should marry each other. In the series finale, they are dating once again.