Response to Class Discussion 2

I find our class discussions to be getting weaker each week. It seemed like we didn't have the heart to really analyze the book like we did last week. We also seemed to all be on different pages. I noticed that I kept tuning out of our conversation and listening to the "Finding Alaska" group. There book seems quite interesting, but from what I've heard he didn't plan his adventure very well. Back to "The Curious Case of the Don in the Night-Time" discussion, we talked about how controversial our views on the mother are. Some of us call her a bitch, others don't blame her for leaving, and some don't know what she did. That is one thing troubling me about our group, we have such different takes on the book and some people know things others don't and its just frustrating trying to voice our thoughts while understand another's. We also have yet to understand autism. I think that is one of the major problems. None of us fully understand what we are reading so we keep asking questions to people out of our group hoping for answers but with that we have less time do discuss and analyze the book.

Just saying autism is: "Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior." Doesn't give us the insite we need to understand Christopher. What Mr. Sutherland said of how people with autism about a man who is a mathematical genius but doesn't read math like a different language but sees it like a painting and landscapes. He replaces numbers with colors and it just works. Gina said that having autism is like thinking in pictures instead of words and that just gave me a whole new understanding to autism.