But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about something that isn't real and doesn't exist. And that would be stupid.

I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about something that isn't real and doesn't exist. And that would be stupid.

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

Curious Incident is not a book about asperger's....if anything it's a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising and revealing way. The book is not specifically about any specific disorder.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.