Film Blog Post (Autism)

How did the film help you to better understand the character Christopher in the curious

incident of the dog in the night time?

By watching the film my mind was able to comprehend the meaning of autism. I was able

to compare the kids in the film to the character of Christopher. I found out that autistic people

hate noise. For example in the film there is this part where Adam and the rest of the kids are

playing volleyball and all of a sudden Adam separates himself from the rest of the kids and

covers both of his ears with his hands. Same goes for Henry whose dad is a musician who

performs live concerts. Henry travels with his dad most the time and he gets to watch him

perform live but what he doesn’t do is listen to the music. He has head phones that he uses to

cover his ears with to reduce the noise. Furthermore I’ve observed Wyatt having the same

problems with noise. At rehearsal for the musical play Wyatt is practicing and memorizing his

line for the song when one of the kids pops a balloon and Wyatt runs to the teacher/director of

the play covering both of his ears and complains about the balloon pop and the noise it made.

Now if we go back to the book the curious incident of the dog in the night time and take a

look at page (106) we learn that Christopher cannot stand noise as well. On that page there is an

incident where Christopher goes shopping with his mom for a charismas gift for his grandma.

Since it was charismas the mall was very crowded and packed with people trying to get done last

minute shopping. It got too noisy for Christopher and he started screaming out of his lungs while

covering both of his ears. His mom tried to get him up and move him but he kept shouting and

Screaming and in the process knocked down few items off the shelf. Coming back to the question

I think it’s safe to say autistic people are not fond of noise.