Living With Christopher Young - Life Is Worth Living

Mark Haddon wrote a wonderful book that became a bestseller and won the Whit bread Book of the Year and Whit bread Novel awards. Mark Haddon himself said while writing this book, "Who the hell wants to read a story about a 15-year-old boy with a disability?" He didn't know it was a 15-year-old boy with a disability that made his book stand out, win an award, and become a bestseller. The title of the book is "The Mysterious Incident that Happened to Christopher, the Name of the Dog and the Boy in the Midnight". Christopher is autistic. He can name all countries and capitals of the world. He has a photographic memory and a genius for math and science. Despite his extraordinary intelligence, he cannot imagine, understand analogies, or jokes. He also hates crowded and touched places. People with autistic potential share all the common features of people with autism and Savant syndrome. Autism is one of the developmental disorders among the group of autism spectrum disorders. This condition is primarily characterized by impairments in socialization, imagination, and communication. Savant's syndrome is usually characterized by very low general intelligence in the domains of math, music, art, and memory, but unusually narrow intelligence. In the story, Christopher's parents break up. Because his mother could no longer afford the demands of Christopher and his father to give birth to a child with autism, she decided to leave him. Parents caring for children with special needs, such as children with autism, are more likely to experience higher levels of stress than most parents. This is mainly because their children have special needs, unusual behaviors, and different abilities compared to other children of their age. These children are more likely to have communication difficulties and have unusual reactions. An example of this is when a child with autism starts crying and beating herself for no apparent reason. Perhaps something upset him, but he doesn't know how to do it, so I can't explain what exactly. Some autistic children with sensory integration problems may be hypersensitive or hypersensitive to touch, pressure, movement, and sound. Avoiding certain types of food and drinks, or exhibiting certain behaviors that are sometimes difficult to understand, such as pinching or hitting repetitive movements, or screaming. Some of them have a strong preoccupation with certain routines and may be afraid of new places or people. Adapting to these children's needs and coping with their behavior can be stressful. Autism can severely limit a child's world. They thrive in security and must avoid anything they perceive as a threat to security. However, many factors, circumstances, and social demands make them very anxious and most of the time they have to deal with it. Subconsciously and unconsciously, children with autism experience constant anxiety about everything they do not understand or about everything they do not understand. As in the book, Christopher was physically ill and afraid when he had to leave the area of ​​the city he knew. Unlike most children, people with autism do not adapt easily to new environments or situations. The process of learning to understand and accept what you didn't know before leads to higher levels of anxiety.