Curious Incident book

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I have finally got round to reading this and didn't really enjoy it. I have a dd with asd, and found the book tedious with all the descriptions of Christopher's thought processes. I was just wondering what other asd parents/people thought about it?

I really enjoyed the book and found his thought processes were very well described - I thought the point of the tediousness of his thought processes was to show how the character tried to calm himself, rationalise events and understand a strange world. As a matter of fact, the character reminds me so much of my own ASD boy, age 16 that I encouraged him to read the book and he really enjoyed it also, but says he's not as 'bad' as the character (whatever that means!). I could relate to the character's fixation on a particular topic, his determination to stay focused on the topic even though no one else was interested, and his inability to cope in the real world due to over-stimulation. I suppose it could be seen as an over-exaggeration of how an ASD individual copes with the world but overall, I thought it was a very good representation.