Just finished this fascinating book and instead of analyzing plot, structure, characterization, and imagery, I am analyzing whether I may have a very mild form of Aspergers Syndrome...minus the super-antisocial and violent tendencies. I hardly ever get an urge to strike someone, but I do occasionally get overcome with a compulsion to destroy a frustrating piece of equipment or gadgetry.
It is more the way that information is processed that I relate to, though this book decreased my opinion of my closeness to this condition.
I don't really think anything like the protagonist, Christopher Boone. In fact, although I thoroughly enjoyed the story, I found the character a bit presumptuous, rude, affronting, and obnoxious: which is exactly what asperger websites tell you NOT to think when witnessing the symptoms, but I cannot help it. I am so anti-rude that I almost cannot excuse someone due to mental illness or exceptional circumstances.
I love my dreamy lover so dearly, I cannot express it verbally, but, when she is zipping around the room readying herself for work and abruptly asks whether I have seen a hair tie, shirt, or some other sundry, I almost invariably get testy and frustrated. I wish I didn't, but I cannot help it.
Due to this, my own symptom, I likely am afflicted with the yang of asperger's yin.
From a list of spelling suggestions for 'aspergers':
supercharger: I like this one.
gasper: not so crazy about this one.
grasper: intellectually, perhaps.
rasper: sounds cool, whether it refers to tool or voice timbre.
Ciao for now.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was written by Mark Haddon