vermontsavant wrote:
what exactly is so objectable about the book and or article or both.i did not see any offensive material in the book or article.im a bit confused
The fact that the main character was written as having Asperger's, yet the author admittedly knew little to nothing about AS, and never even bothered to researched it.
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Haddon, by his own admission, is clueless about Asperger's. "I know very little about the subject," he confessed on his website, in an blog posted on July 16, 2009. "I did no research for Curious Incident... I'd read Oliver Sacks's essay about Temple Grandin and a handful of newspaper and magazine articles about, or by, people with Asperger's and autism. I deliberately didn't add to this list."
This, from the author of the article:
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Indeed, if Christopher John Francis Boone has Asperger's, as we've been led to believe, he has one of the most extreme forms of the disorder ever recorded.
What on earth has happened to the gold standard that used to be promoted by all authors, and writing instructors?
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Write what you know!
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