Someone lent this to me months ago and I finally got around to reading it. I guess it was meant to inspire greater sympathy for people with autism, and it kind of did, but mostly my conclusion was that "wow they really are difficult and annoying".
>adverbially adjectival
>>25258835It would've been pretty dishonest and pointless to convince people they're not difficult. I really liked the ending, which essentially said: 'autists might be seen as difficult, but so called normal people are a bunch of twats too'
>>25258835A gay ripoff of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
>>25258835High functioning autistics are just awkward, as the symptoms get worse they’re definitionally difficult and annoying. Go watch clips of the nonverbal ones the moms can’t even hug that just randomly scream and beat on the walls, themselves and others. Then try to say there’s some fucking light at the end of that tunnel that’s not throwing them on the train tracks.
I have autism, and I don't like it at all. The kid comes across as a retarded psychopath. >dude, I found your dead impaled dog, and tried to hug itLiterally no autistic person I have ever met would do that.
>Haddon states on his website that, although he had read "a handful of newspaper and magazine articles about, or by, people with Asperger's and autism" in preparation for writing the book, he knows "very little" about Asperger's syndrome and that Christopher Boone is inspired by two different people. According to Haddon, neither of these people can be labelled as having a disability. Haddon added that he "slightly regret[s]" that the term Asperger's syndrome appeared on the cover of his novel.[5] In 2010, in an interview with The Independent, he was described as>now thoroughly irritated that the word Asperger's appeared on subsequent editions of the novel, because now everyone imagines that he is an expert and he keeps getting phone calls asking him to appear at lectures.[8]lol
I read this as a kid and it helped me understand kids with disabilities a little better.
>>25258835I read this when I was about 12 ans didnt really know what autism was. I remember who the murderer was though. Dont remember the motive
I did an essay on this book in high school and though it began as an essay on the book's accuracy portraying autism it ended up being about how inaccurate the book is at portraying autism. I sourced some autistic guy's blogspot rant.
>>25259808An autistic kid in my neighborhood growing up attempted to make a pet out of a dead raven, he carried it around with him everywhere he went for a few days until someone told his parents. He said and did things like that all the time. Can't remember what he named it and it is driving me nuts.But it is autistic to view your limited experience as absolute and I absolutely believe that you are autistic. Not judging.
