The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. chapters 109-127

These chapters were really interesting because Christopher decried how his mind works.
He said “My memory is like a film. And when people ask me to remember something I can simply press rewind fast foreword and pause like on a video recorder.”(76)
I think this is really strange because when he decries his memories he includes every detail. He remembers the exact dates of everything, his age, and what people were wearing. He could even tell you the brand of cigarettes his mother was smoking. He uses his memory to discover what is going on in a situation. He cant understand things like an everyday person can. When someone says “see you later alligator” he thinks of an alligator and it doesn’t make any sense to him. So when he sees something strange like someone laying on the ground or someone says something strange to him he refers to his past to see if other people act like that to make sense of what is going on. He thinks like this because he is autistic. He also has no imagination, he doesn’t understand when someone is talking about their future or uses metaphors because he cannot picture things that are not realistic. He doesn’t understand what someone means when they tell him to use his imagination because he thinks its impossible. This is interesting to me because how can someone be so smart in one part of there brain but be lacking so much knowledge in the other parts.