The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.

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Do you think Christopher is an aspie, or do you believe he is 100% autistic?

Hard to say. When reading it myself, I went back and forth between Aspergers and HFA. I'm kinda leaning towards Aspergers, because the two in "Mozart and the Whale" are both Aspies.

Seemed totally fake to me.

He was what I call a 'mediarized' aspie. Basically someone read the DSM description of AS and made a character out of it, adding the common myth of savantism into the mix. I don't like it at all because now everyone thinks that I am good at maths when I really struggle.

Some people think that aspergers will never grow out of an ability or a gift, or a mania... Actually, I believe it´s possible to change, to lose or even to gain. There are many things we avoid to do in pulic and hid to ourselves when becomeing adults... then, you can die and nobody is gonna figure it out.

The book used to be promoted around the idea that the main character was Aspergers, but the author has apparently retracted that.

A few years ago when I was first investigating the idea that I might be an aspie, I read the first fifty pages or so and came to the conclusion that since I was nothing like the character I probably didn't have aspergers.

I picked up the threads a few years later, and got on a path that led to diagnosis.

So there's a lesson - you should never rely on novels for hard information.

Funny you ask. Depending on the edition of the book, when you read the description, it says that Chris is either autistic or has Asperger's. Officially, the author has stated that Chris isn't an Aspie, and that he's kind of annoyed that people keep thinking Chris has AS.

i didn't like the book. i found it to be hard to read. it also didn't show that aspies have an emotional side we just cover it up.

I thought Chris was more autistic than AS and I was right.

I read it last year (on the suggestion that I read it because the main character is on the spectrum) and found it totally unbelievable - the character just didn't feel like an Aspie to me.

same. the author didn't have AS. all he saw was the symptoms and he tried as best as he could to explain them from what he thought was an AS standpoint. for me it was really just a book on how a well researched and sympathetic NT thinks we are, not an actual book on AS.

Ha, I never knew he was changed from Aspergers to autistic. There must have been a lot of criticism along the lines of Jellybean's. I was slightly insulted that someone with such a superficial understanding would cash in like that.

I started reading it and he does sound more autistic than AS. But this book is kind of old isn't it? And even House Rules massively stereotypes AS and in the end you end up thinking the character is more autistic. I think for NT's they need to really exaggerate the symptoms. Like in my book the autistic character is just like me and some other autistic people I know so NT's probably wouldn't even pick up he even has AS.

None.

The character is a bizarro and unsuccessful NT morph of someone who some form of the verb to be a spectrumight.