How Is Christopher Boone Different to the Average Teenager of His Age?

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Christopher Boone is seen as a very unique individual with minimal similarities to people of his age but great differences. The novel tells us that Christopher Boone is around the age of 15 and by the characteristics which we can extract from his actions and thoughts we can tell that he is not the average 15 year old. The major characteristic of Christopher Boone which caught my eye and differentiates him from other people of his age or even most people in general, is his inability to empathize. I think that this characteristic with holds him from the basic joys of a teenager such as making friends or even girlfriends as in the novel we can see that he is unable to imagine the thoughts and feelings of other people, he cannot tell when a person is being sarcastic with him or determine a person’s mood by their facial expressions. As we can tell from personal experiences and just by looking around us, the average teenager of Christopher’s age would be engaging in many social activities such as parties and sports teams. Unfortunately, even though not mentioned in the novel. Christopher shows many signs of “suffering” from Asperger’s Syndrome, This is shown very clearly as he shows that he excels in certain topics while he is uninterested in others we see this through his brilliance in Maths and Physics while not being interested in the other subjects. We also see that Christopher has a mild case of autism through his carelessness towards the fact that he has just discovered his mother and father had both been cheating on each other yet this does not seem to bother him and he is much more concentrated on what he was working on already which was the murder of Wellington. In conclusion we can see that Christopher’s condition has made him extraordinarily gifted in maths and science but severely underequipped socially, this had lead to him being misunderstood just as much as
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