Mom reports: I finished reading “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”. Let me start by saying that I really like this book. I felt very comfortable with the main character. It is clever and sweet but not sentimental or condescending. I can see how it could easily be the topic of some excellent “book club” or college level literature discussions. However, apparently I’m really stupid because I couldn’t read it without taking breaks or my brain hurt. I was afraid to skim the character’s digressions into mathematical problems or camera-like descriptions of his surroundings so I tried to understand everything. I knew almost immediately what the solution to the mystery was but I didn’t realize until halfway through the book that the book’s topic was not at all what I originally thought it was. I think that it is appropriate for older teen and up but adults will like it regardless of their connection to (or lack of a connection to) the Autistic Spectrum.
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2004 Dad reports:
Someone found Tommy’s blog with a google search of “no such thing as asperger syndrome”
If anyone doubts, they are welcome to come live at my house for a few days.
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2004Dad reports this morning:
Tommy was given medicine at 6:20 and urged to get up at 6:30 (which he did!) and by 6:50 he was sitting on the couch bored so he started saying “I love you Sarah. I love you Noah. I love you Dad.” over and over in different orders. He was egged on by his brother as they raced to repeat the patterns until I asked them to stop. Now he reads.