In the early eighties I spent several months working at an Adult Training Centre in North London. If you want to find out who someone is, just ask them. Labels tell us very little about the person who has been labelled and a lot about the people doing the labelling. But I like it most of all because it is Christopher’s own phrase. I like the way it includes all of us (who doesn’t have behavioural problems?). I like the way it gently mocks the diagnostic medical language. In the book he refers to himself only as ‘someone who has Behavioural Problems’. Mostly because the central conceit was that Christopher himself had written the book (for a long time it had the dull but accurate working title, Christopher’s Book) and ‘Asperger Syndrome’ is not a phrase he uses. I’ve always regretted that the phrase ‘Asperger Syndrome’ appeared on the cover of Curious Incident when it was first published. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
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