While thinking about the parent's perspective and take this novel, a large part of my thoughts were about how difficult it would be to have a child with autism or asperger's syndrome. I would expect that a parent would do or read anything they could to be able to understand or relate to their child. I wouldn't ever expect them to take anything word for word in a novel like this, because autism is a spectrum. No case is going to be exactly the same, but their are going to be similarities between cases. So books like this are going to be a comfort for the parents. They can find similarities they can relate to their child and see how Christopher reacts to experiences in his life. That is why this book is so cool, they are able to see it in a different perspective that they have probably been trying to understand for a very long time. I personally have no idea what it would even like to have a child, let alone a child that isn’t 100% healthy, so I really feel that I don’t have much authority on the subject, but as far as I can imagine having a child with this mental health problem would be heartbreaking.
(From a parent of a child with ASD)
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