The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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Has anyone else read this book?

I loved it. It was the first time I realized how literally a common phrase can be taken by someone who has AS. It was funny in an ironic way, touching, inspiring, and it made me sad that I didn't understand my cousin better.

Here's a link to the Amazon site. If you scroll down a bit, you will see the editorial reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/Curious-Incident- ... 0385512104

If you have read it, I would really love to hear your take on it, especially if you have AS. I don't, so I'm not even sure if it's realistic or not -- just that it gave me a different perspective.

LL

there is a topic here on that book already. i've go to know about it there, bought it, read it, loved it. i could relate with many things. although, christian is more autistic than AS.

Thanks tomamil. I'll do a search for the other thread.

LL

or was it christopher?

I have yet to read the book but I've heard about it. I REALLY want to read it now. Hopefully they have a copy at the university library.

I really liked it too. I liked the way he logically explains what it's like for him when he's stressed. Normally when I'm stressed my ability to explain anything goes out the window. And the way he explained why he hit the police officer towards the beginning had me thinking I should get a medic alert bracelet, to avoid having to explain. Didn't, though, because of the cost.

I did enjoy reading that book but personally i found it related swinging more to autism than aspergers, i loved it that it brought aspergers and autism to the media and to people who didnt know what it was to read up more on it.

One of the best books around imo. I can relate to Christopher.

I can relate, too.

Except that If I try to tell anyone that I'm autistic after they read the book, they don't believe me. Because people don't get that there's more different shades of autism then just Christopher.

I enjoyed it. The way everything that happened around Christopher had no context was very well done - I could relate to that big time. On the other hand, he was a very stereotyped character and his autism seemed very severe to me, not altogether representative. But most of his quirks I could see as being extrapolated characteristics of myself: If I'm on the underground, I do read every damn sign regardless of interest and sometimes I have to stop myself to avoid getting dizzy...

It's a lovely and well-written book, I enjoyed it.

Just the same problem as with all fictional autie-characters made up by non-autistic people: The main character is not a person, he is a stereotype on two legs.

I loved that book!

I didn't enjoy that book much at all. He was nowhere near High-Functioning Aspie, he was more of an idiot savant (pardon the term, I'm not familiar with the more politically correct word). His understanding of logic and use of such was much more in the severe autism category, though he was nowhere near low-functioning. A book that made little sense to me and that I could hardly relate too.