A Curious Incident...?

[JayEgo]

Picked up a recent besteller... The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time about a sixteen year old boy with Aspergers and some events in his life. It's told from his perspective, as though he's writting the book, though it's written by a non-aspergers author.

I was hooked early on... A really great read with a fair insight, from my knowledge, into aspergers in it's more extreme manifestation. The world as percieved by this youngster is so similar to our own yet you can feel the edge that he has to work through.

Anyone esle read this book and have comment on it?




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I particularly love the chapter numbering concept! very insightfull into a mathematical mind and the yellow / brown disliking and descriptions of why, with the yellow car effect is also great!

I was with him all the way through his journey and felt as though I could almost see him as he made his way through the world of train stations, undergrounds and city streets!

His attatchement ot his rat was warming and yet, his acknowledgment of the simple fact of its death due to old age read of a mind that is struggling to comprehend emotion and prefers the simplicity of logic and his responses in general to jokes, sarcasm or colloquialism is very well percieved and written IMO.

An excellent book highly recommended!

Ja¥son xx

[Cherry]

I read somewhere that this is being made into a movie

[Redstarfalling]

I really enjoyed it too and I agree with your comments - chapter numbering was clever (and I didn't even notice until it was mentioned later on!). I don't have much experience with kids who have autism or Asperger's or the like, but it does seem like it's a pretty good representation. And also just a good read! I couldn't put it down... :)

[JayEgo]

I read somewhere that this is being made into a movie:erm: Not sure if that'd really work... It's the inner working sof his mind that tell the story, not his outward actions surely? I'd think there'd have to be an awful lot of naration to make it work as a film!?

Ja¥son xx

[jamnar]

Yeh, but A Beautiful Mind was a difficult story to make into a movie, but it was an OK effort. With the right direction and casting they could make it work.

[Monkeysrule]

I thought he was autistic...unless they mean the same thing.

Anyway, I really liked that book!!! :D

[Bamy]

note to self - read this book.

[Monkeysrule]

note to self - read this book.
Smart choice! It's quick, fun, and interesting. It almost has a 'dreamy' quality.

[Lady Arwyn]

I thought he was autistic...unless they mean the same thing.

Anyway, I really liked that book!!! :D

Aspergers Syndrome is a form of autism, the form taken in the book. There are dozens of forms of autism, from infantile autism (really, really not home) to "high functioning autism" (ie genius with autistic behaviors) and everything in-between.

Aspergers Syndrome is a specific form of autism similar to high functioning autism in which the Aspie has an average to high intellegence with a single strong obsession in which s/he ends up being an expert in a single thing, like washing machines or train scedules. Aspies also tend to have symptoms that appear similar to ADD/ADHD as well as odd mannerisms.

Aspergers is also known as "Little Professor Syndrome" because of their adult-ish seriousness when one-on one with an adult. They tend to avoid peers and prefer the company of adults. They are very literal, you can't use little sayings like "ants in your pants" or "cat got your tounge" because they take it literally.

Two of my three kids are diagosed with PDD-NOS. It means Pervasive Developmental Disorder (the official name for autism), Not Otherwise Specified (not any specific form of autism) after an initial diagnosis of Aspergers.

[Bane]

Psych Major here:
I don't really know a lot about Asperger's, but I've seen it described as such.

Imagine a child that seems to prodigal. Really good in math or languages or something else. This child does not talk or try to communicate in any way. Yet they can tell you the exact number of M&M's in the jar without you ever having counted them. (Kind of like Rain Man)

This is probably more High Functioning Autistic than Asperger's. If so, I'm sorry. I'm more interested in Child Abnormal Psych than the more common psychoses (not meant to mean wacky, just to describe the more common problems children can have [ADD/ADHD, autism]).

Give me a few minutes and I can post a link to the clinical definition of Asperger's and more info on it. I had to d a paper on autism, and this was one of the main parts that I wrote on.

Who is the author of the book, BTW?

EDIT* Here's a site that I sed to research Asperger's:
Asperger's Syndrome (http://http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.html)

[Lady Arwyn]

IMDb has a page for this movie already...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435628/

The director/screenwriter is Steven Kloves, the very same Steven Kloves who writes the screenplays for the Harry Potter movies!!!!!!