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Being alive is challenging.
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Existing, being aware of existing, navigating existing, existing alongside others who are also trying to navigate existing. Imagining trying to exist when your brain fundamentally works differently in the way in which it is aware of its existence, how it navigates existing, and how it exists alongside others who also trying to navigate existing is nearly unfathomable.
But Mark Haddon in his 2003 book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, tries to give us that insight through his 15-year-old main character, Christopher, who is on the autism spectrum. I suspect Haddon approximated it quite well on page 132 of the paperback by analogizing to Sherlock Holmes, a favorite character of Christopher’s for his deductions and “detecting”: … I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head. Many of us can relate to this sense of needing to detach;