The curious incident of the dog in the night-time - Mar 12, 2015

This book was suggested to me by a rave review of the play in New York, profiled on the news.

This book is written by a young man with Autism.

Although I am only a few pages in, it is quite interesting. The humour is something that I have heard many times in the last 6 months of working with adults with autism. Also, there are many sections that describe how he's been taught, but it doesn't make sense (something I have thoughout about as well is listed next). Some therapists think they can teach emotions by drawing stick faces. However - this doesn't always work out. People's faces NEVER look like stick faces, and the associations we've learned to make with x mouths, and s mouths, are only that - associations. They are not ACTUAL visuals of the emotion they are intending to portray. At the beginning of this book, the author draws these out and discusses them.

Also at the begining of the book, the author gets arrested. However what is interesting is that because he was overstimulated, he got arrested (he appeared shady because he wasn't answering "typically"), also, he hit the police officer because he was overstimulated (seen it too many times). Lastly, when the police officer said "I am arresting you because you assaulted a police officer" the author feels calmer because this is exactly what was said in a movie once.

I think this one will be an eye opener - stay tuned!