cuirous incident
Brooke Rethlake
Dr. O’Hearn
Curious Incident Paper
3/31/2014
I loved reading this book. I did not know much about Asperger’s before this book and how their minds work. I was curious while reading this book and researched Asperger’s. I read different articles and stories online. Then you assigned this paper, and I knew which article I was going to use. I found an article online that someone had wrote after the Sandy Hook shooting. He wrote it because Adam Lanza, the shooter, had Asperger’s. It gave some good insight and it helped me understand someone with Asperger’s. In this article written by Matthew Rozsa titled “My lifelong struggle with Asperger’s, he makes a very profound statement. He says “How you process the world" is a key phrase here, because that's really what Asperger's boils down to. Although there is a great deal of variety in how it impacts different people, the common thread that binds those with Asperger's together is how our brains process social signals sent to us by other human beings. Experts have found that communication is only one-third verbal, with the two-thirds that are nonverbal including such diverse elements as body language, gesturing, tone of voice, and facial expression.” I loved this because it has everything to do with the book.
We first see how he reads people on page 3. He says “I got Siobhan to draw lots of these faces and then write down next to them exactly what they meant. I kept the piece of paper in my pocket and took it out when I didn’t understand what someone was saying. But it was very difficult to decide which of the diagrams people’s face move was most like the face they were making because very quickly” I think that this shows how Christopher’s mind works, and how he perceives people. His mind is very different from mine, and to understand his mind is very interesting.
Source:
"My Lifelong Struggle With Asperger's Syndrome." PolicyMic. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Mar. 2014.
Dr. O’Hearn
Curious Incident Paper
3/31/2014
I loved reading this book. I did not know much about Asperger’s before this book and how their minds work. I was curious while reading this book and researched Asperger’s. I read different articles and stories online. Then you assigned this paper, and I knew which article I was going to use. I found an article online that someone had wrote after the Sandy Hook shooting. He wrote it because Adam Lanza, the shooter, had Asperger’s. It gave some good insight and it helped me understand someone with Asperger’s. In this article written by Matthew Rozsa titled “My lifelong struggle with Asperger’s, he makes a very profound statement. He says “How you process the world" is a key phrase here, because that's really what Asperger's boils down to. Although there is a great deal of variety in how it impacts different people, the common thread that binds those with Asperger's together is how our brains process social signals sent to us by other human beings. Experts have found that communication is only one-third verbal, with the two-thirds that are nonverbal including such diverse elements as body language, gesturing, tone of voice, and facial expression.” I loved this because it has everything to do with the book.
We first see how he reads people on page 3. He says “I got Siobhan to draw lots of these faces and then write down next to them exactly what they meant. I kept the piece of paper in my pocket and took it out when I didn’t understand what someone was saying. But it was very difficult to decide which of the diagrams people’s face move was most like the face they were making because very quickly” I think that this shows how Christopher’s mind works, and how he perceives people. His mind is very different from mine, and to understand his mind is very interesting.
Source:
"My Lifelong Struggle With Asperger's Syndrome." PolicyMic. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Mar. 2014.