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yeah, actually, there is... it is titled artemis fowl: the lost colony, there are a new fairy species (whell, not new, but you just learn about them) called demons, huge conflict involving time and space deteriation, i won't tell you much more so i dont ruin the story. it came out a month or so ago. the cover is red and it showes an imp (baby demon) materializing from limbo (lack of time), missing a finger. you'll like it ALOT!!



the imp, if it was an emoticon...---------> /

I enjoyed the book. Some of the things in there I could indentify with and others seemed to be more of AS/HFA stereotypes, but I thought it was portrayed pretty well. I could relate to the scene in the train station.

Has anyone read This book by Mark Haddon?

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If so what are your thoughts about it?


Good book and the author had it written as the character writing it. I did think Chris was more HFA than AS. His problems were too severe for it to be AS.

I have just finished readig it today and thought it was a very interesting book.

Is this truely the thought patterns of 15 year old Aspie/Autie?

i have no clue, every indivusial with it is different. I sure don't think like that.

Can anyone relate to Christopher?

Maybe a little. I hate lying too and don't get jokes well and when i see expressions I don't know what they mean. My sensory issues arne't that severe. I'd rate them in the mild range or very mild. I didn't like being hugged either and still don't soemtimes but I don't scream or panic. I don't do the pattern thing he does with cars for good days or bad days.

Just wondering what your intake might be...

damn, forgot about the car patterns. reminded me when i was younger i used to listen to what was said then repeat it in my head only broken down into syllables, yes perhaps saw more of me in christopher without realising. also used to eat things as pairs...don't like crowds either...

The story was pretty well written and funny but of course it only takes the aspects of AS that NTs would find the most interesting and uses them even when the symptom is actually very rare or not usually comorbid, like in Rain Man.

It was okay. I didn't think it was anything to write home about. I thought that Christopher was too extreme. I mean, few have THAT many symptoms... Plus, I'm one of the Aspies who has severe mathematical difficulties, so I couldn't relate much to Christopher's thinking style. There were, oh, two sentences where I saw myself. That was it. I also found it curious that they never once said the word "Asperger's." He had no idea what his diagnosis was and the book jacket didn't mention it, either. It would've been a lot cooler had it been a real story. I got bored with the actual plotline with him and his mother. I just was, like, talk about Aspie-ness.
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I think they're making a movie out of it in 2007. I just started reading it and it's good so far.

This was most likely done on purpose, and it's what is preventing us from going 'This author is flat-out wrong about AS'. It was a wise move, in my opinion, as it allows us to say 'He could have [insert something else here]' without any contradictions. Plus, he's a fictional character. I, personally, am hoping for a sequel! (yeah right, as if that's ever going to be written)

Is this true? If so, I'd watch it, but I cringe at the thought of the possibility that the name "Asperger's syndrome" would be thrown around in association with that movie. Not sure how well the general public will take it, they might think everybody with AS is prone to clutching pocket knives while talking to policemen or any other stranger, or jumping into the tracks of the London Underground (or any other subway for that matter), not paying attention to oncoming trains...

they're making a movie about it?! I was just thinking the other day, after i finished reading it, that it would make an excellent movie. kind of have the feel of 'the squid and the whale'. wonderful! they should make more movies about as or people on the spectrum. it could fall into its' own category of films perhaps.

i'm assuming the filming for it will take place in the Uk.

hsd anyone seen the movie 'bubble' it seems pretty interesting from what i've read.

Squid?

When I first read this book, I thought that Christopher was much more severely affected than I. I figured that he must have a diagnosis of HFA rather than AS or at the least he has a more severe form of AS than I. I didn't relate very well because of the difference in severity. Then an acquaintance read the book and pointed out the similarities between me and Christopher. I think I am more like Christopher than I realize and consider myself more normal than I really am. For example, I found Christopher's emotional detachment to be disturbing. Then I realized that I can be just as emotionally detached and unempathetic. I've never cried at a movie in my entire life, even when everyone else in the movie theater is bawling. Seeing a dead fetus does not move me in the slightest even though it brings tears to others' eyes. Etc.

Re: The Book

I really enjoyed the book.

I just wanted to read more and more of the story, which is unusual for me ... i actually finished reading the book
(in two days) ... now i wish it was longer (the book)

I love this book! It inspired me to get better at math, and try to develop savant skills. so far it has worked for me.

The ending is the most inspirational for me.

The day I went to my GP to ask to be referred for Asperger’s diagnosis I sat outside the surgery waiting for it to open. To pass the time I decided to count the number of red cars that went up the road compared to the number that went down.

After the doctors I went to the library to get that book. I laughed my head off when I read the bit about him with the yellow cars!

I also related to him on the train when he got inot the luggage area as I get comfort from getting into small spaces.

Not being emotional about the situation of his parents can be autistic / Aspie like, but then so can be over emotional.

I liked the book and have it as a recommendation on Bearsac’s website.

I thought it was a really interesting book, and I could relate to the character in some ways (my husband, who is also and aspie and loves math, found the character and the book to be especially interesting), but I thought that the character was presented in a way that was a bit flat and two-dimensional and that he was way too emotionally detached. I could very well be wrong here, but I always thought that it is not so much our capacity to feel emotions towards others that is impaired so much as our ability to express them. Maybe I'm just more emotional than most aspies? I thought that his unemotional reaction when he is told his mother has died and when he reflects back on it in the narration was unrealistic. Even severely autistic kids form bonds with their mothers, or so I've heard, and losing a mother is usually such a horrible thing that you would have to have a pretty limited capacity for emotion to react that way. I worry that people could take this the wrong way and think of us all as being cold and lacking in emotions (aside from fear and anger) and fear us or look down on us for that, or assume we are all like the character. I agree though that it was commendable for the author to take up the challenge of writing from the perspective of someone with AS, I'm sure it is not easy to do.