The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a book about a kid named is Christopher who has autism. In the beginning of the book, it starts with Christopher finding his neighbors dead dog Wellington. Throughout the book he tries to figure out who killed him. Along the way he finds out many things about his family. One thing is that his mother is alive and that she cheated on his father. Christopher has a form of autism called asperger's. This does not disable him, even though he is still highly functional. But he does and needs many diffrent things. Asperger's is a disease that affects the brain and how you function. For most individuals with asperger's they find that they are good at one things and one thing only, such as math, science,