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Nighttime Normality

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Often, people classify whether someone is autistic or “normal” based on a category of symptoms. Normality is the state of being usual, often referring to the mental and physical states. According to the article, “What is Autism,” autism is a complex mental disorder characterized by the difficulty to communicate and form relationships. In the novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the main character, Christopher John Francis Boone, exhibits some of these symptoms. However, the author of the novel, Mark Haddon did not state in anywhere in the novel, saying Christopher has Asperger’s Syndrome and even reveals progressively more where he does not exhibit signs of the opposite. In doing so, he is able to convey the idea that there

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