Understanding Asperger's Syndrome
4 main features of Asperger's Syndrome:
After having read about Asperger's Syndrome, I have identified four main features of the mental condition. Firstly, Asperger's Syndrome is a developmental disorder in which people have severe difficulties understanding how to interact socially. They have a great deal of difficulty expressing their own feelings and perceiving others' feelings or reading nonverbal cues (body language) and very often the individual with Asperaer's Syndrome has difficulty determining proper body space. Secondly, children with Asperger's Syndrome often have limited and very focused interests. They are often most comfortable with fixed routines and dislike change. In addition, those with Asperger's Syndrome have a normal IQ and many individuals (although not all), exhibit exceptional skill or talent in a specific area. Another feature is that they are often overly sensitive to sounds, tastes, smells, and sights, the person with Asperger's Syndrome may prefer soft clothing, certain foods, and be bothered by sounds or lights no one else seems to hear or see.
How Christopher displays these features of Asperger's Syndrome?
From the book, "I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning" and, his father and him spread their fingers out in a fan making their fingers and thumbs touch each other to show their love for one another, shows that Christopher has difficulty expressing his feelings. When his father speaks to him without looking at him, he finds it nice because he doesn't want to figure out his father's feelings as he cannot read body language.
Christopher likes facts & numbers, he finds that prime numbers are like life. (chapters in the book) He wants to become an astronaut even though he knows it was very difficult, because he had to become an officer in the air force and had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and he himself couldn't take orders. BUT he still wants to have that ambition. He likes really little spaces, so long as there is no one elsee in them with him which makes him feel calm, therefore he enjoys solitude. Once, his food touched each other so he did not eat them anymore. These shows that he has very focused interests and dislike change.
3) He tries to apply scientific logic to a concept - Heaven. For example, he finds that if heaven is at the other side of the black hole, dead people would have to be fired into space on rockets to get there. Christopher's capacity to understand the way the universe works is bigger than the average person too because he finds that fact is something you can work out in your own mind. In the book "The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night Time", his father also claims that "this is the one thing he is really good at", therefore, he's able to take A levels when he's fifteen years old.
4) He is very observant as he knows every small detail of whatever or whoever he comes across
taste: doesn't like brown or yellow food, doesn't eat the food when it touches one another
After having read about Asperger's Syndrome, I have identified four main features of the mental condition. Firstly, Asperger's Syndrome is a developmental disorder in which people have severe difficulties understanding how to interact socially. They have a great deal of difficulty expressing their own feelings and perceiving others' feelings or reading nonverbal cues (body language) and very often the individual with Asperaer's Syndrome has difficulty determining proper body space. Secondly, children with Asperger's Syndrome often have limited and very focused interests. They are often most comfortable with fixed routines and dislike change. In addition, those with Asperger's Syndrome have a normal IQ and many individuals (although not all), exhibit exceptional skill or talent in a specific area. Another feature is that they are often overly sensitive to sounds, tastes, smells, and sights, the person with Asperger's Syndrome may prefer soft clothing, certain foods, and be bothered by sounds or lights no one else seems to hear or see.
How Christopher displays these features of Asperger's Syndrome?
From the book, "I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning" and, his father and him spread their fingers out in a fan making their fingers and thumbs touch each other to show their love for one another, shows that Christopher has difficulty expressing his feelings. When his father speaks to him without looking at him, he finds it nice because he doesn't want to figure out his father's feelings as he cannot read body language.
Christopher likes facts & numbers, he finds that prime numbers are like life. (chapters in the book) He wants to become an astronaut even though he knows it was very difficult, because he had to become an officer in the air force and had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and he himself couldn't take orders. BUT he still wants to have that ambition. He likes really little spaces, so long as there is no one elsee in them with him which makes him feel calm, therefore he enjoys solitude. Once, his food touched each other so he did not eat them anymore. These shows that he has very focused interests and dislike change.
3) He tries to apply scientific logic to a concept - Heaven. For example, he finds that if heaven is at the other side of the black hole, dead people would have to be fired into space on rockets to get there. Christopher's capacity to understand the way the universe works is bigger than the average person too because he finds that fact is something you can work out in your own mind. In the book "The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night Time", his father also claims that "this is the one thing he is really good at", therefore, he's able to take A levels when he's fifteen years old.
4) He is very observant as he knows every small detail of whatever or whoever he comes across
taste: doesn't like brown or yellow food, doesn't eat the food when it touches one another
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