I could not stop reading Mark Haddon’s best-selling work, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.” More than intriguing, it is a compelling novel that allows the reader to enter the mind, heart and life of a young man who is autistic.
Eager to learn more about the disorder, I searched the web and found this information. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by:
1) Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts.