Christopher From The Curious Incident

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Having little friends makes you feel out of place, but how would it feel having little friends and having a form of autism on top of that? Christopher from The Curious Incident since he has aspergers. His thinking, the affects he has on other people, honesty to other people, and actions are way different from a normal person. Despite this i think that he is a authentic character. Christopher’s thinking is different because his aspergers. He thinks that his way of thinking is should be the normal way to think. For example he thinks that kids from his special school are stupid because he excels in math. He also thinks that his food can't be eaten if they touch. Like when his dad was argueing with him and then he stomped on the …show more content…

He says that he can't tell lies because it's hard for him to do it because his brain starts thinking of things that didn't happen. So he doesn't lie but he does say white lies. For example if they ask him where he has been he just says i have been outside. An example of him telling the truth was he told the police officer that his dad killed wellington knowing that his dad might go to jail. He also tells siobhan that his dad hit him yesterday night his dad could have gotten in trouble with the police for hitting christopher. Many people are scared of people who have mental disabilities they think that they are very violent and troublesome. I dont think thats the case. Chris kind of goes with it because he hit the police officer. Now many people are going to say that that proves that they are violent. Well yes but no you see you are not looking outside the box. You don't know why he did this? now do you? He says that he dislikes people touching him. He even makes groaning sound meaning that he doesn't like the situation he is in. He also hugged Wellington even though he was dead. While Ms. Shears the owner didn't want to get near Wellington. He shows that he has a close connection to animals. He really cares for them an example is when Toby his pet rat got lost at the train station he looked for him. When he does find him in the train tracks he goes and gets him. He almost got killed but he held on to toby tightly hoping he wouldn't get hurt. Another example would be when he starts investigating a case to find who killed Wellington. He goes around his neighborhood desperately asking for any info they had. He didn't stop until he found out that his father killed it because of pure anger towards his