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The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time By Mark Haddon

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Autism Spectrum Disorder is a neurological developmental disorder that affects how people communicate, interact with others, behave and learn. In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, written by Mark Haddon, The story is narrated by 15-year-old Christopher Boone who has autism and is trying to unfold the murder of Wellington, the dead dog. Due to his autism, Christopher has a unique view and response to what happens around him or to him. In the book, we see the different challenges that Christopher has come across, how he reacted and what he did to calm himself down. One of the challenges Christopher faced in the book was reading a letter written to him and finding out that his mother was alive and living in London. When an average person finds out that they were lied to about their mother’s death and that they were alive, they would be infuriated or distressed, but not for Christopher. …show more content…

Christopher's stomach started to hurt, and he felt giddy. He had regurgitated all over himself and could not think. He was curled up on the bed for a while before his father found him. He tried doing math in his head to calm himself, which did not work., as he expresses, “I doubled 2's in my head because it made me feel calmer. I got to 33554432, which is 225, which was not very much because I've got to 243 before, but my brain wasn't working very well.” (120). This is not a popular or ordinary thing to do when one is faced with a similar problem. But because of Christopher's disability, this is one of the distinctive ways he gets himself to calm

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