Autism: The Musical

The film, Autism: The Musical helped me understand the character of Christopher, from the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, by showing the effect that autism can have on everyone who is connected to the autistic child. I believe the film was able to show in greater detail the difficulties that the families must face, especially the hardships faced by the parents, than what Christopher is able to explain in the book. The parents in the movie and Christopher’s parents in the book are compelling examples of how the all-encompassing attention that needs to be given to an autistic child can lead to one parent feeling like they can’t do anything right and the other parent feeling like they have to do everything. It stands to reason that under that kind of burden, if the problems within the relationship aren’t addressed and are just allowed to continue to fester, eventually the relationship between the couple will break.

The struggles that Lexi’s parents endured seemed to mirror some of Christopher’s parents’ problems. Both of Lexi’s mother and Christopher’s mother suffered bouts of severe depression that left them unable to care for their children and in both cases, the fathers stepped in to take over parenting duties. The obvious difference in these cases, though, was that when the parents separated, Lexi’s mother, Hillary, remained with Lexi, where Christopher’s mother was the one who left the home and her child. It was interesting to note that in neither case were the parents able to, or possibly willing to, go to as great of lengths to save their marriage as they were willing to get help and services for their children. It appeared to truly be a case of putting the child’s needs ahead of everything else.

When I first read the book of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" I did not understand why Christopher was acting so weird when it came to humans. After seeing the film Autism: the Musical, I can see, and understand why Christopher was acting the way he was acting. This film also helped me to understand more about Christopher’s mother and father. I want to understand why Christopher’s mother left him, and why his father lies about it? I ask myself would I never leave my child, in his or her most needs time? I answer myself no, but I can also say that I judged book by its cover. In the film I can see why Christopher mother deiced to leave her son.

Christopher is a child with Autism that goes to his own world. For that I can notice how hard it was for his mother. In documentary I can also state that all the mothers had harder time with kids than the fathers. I think that Christopher mother and Lexi mother have similar character because Lexi mother looked she had harder time than others mothers in the film did. All the mothers in the film think that it was all their fall; that their kids have Autisms. In fact any child can have Autisms it no one fall for I child to have neurological disorder. In film it shows us the different neurological disorder that the kids have. The kids in the documentary have some kind of similarities to Christopher’s character. It is very clearer that Henry has the same disorder as Christopher does. This film was very helpful for me because I got more understanding of what a mother with child who has Autism feels every day in life. For that I can see why his mother wants to leave him. And I also think that she did not leave him because she did not love him, she left him because she wants Christopher to have his own world.

Autism

Autism is developmental disorder that has restrictive and repetitive behavior, this disorder’s unique characteristic is that it impairs child’s communication and social interactions skills and ability. Autism is big problem in our world today. In this particular case Henry and Christopher both have autism and each child display the symptom different from the other. In this movie, it really displayed many textbook symbols of this disorder and gave them a face, now I have seen or watched child, young and full of energy yet constrain by this disorder.
In the movie, Henry and Christopher have relatively displayed similar symptom or behavior which is caused by the Autism and it can be said those behaviors are both repetitive and restrictive. For example, Christopher has social interaction problems. He does not like being touch, he is unable to translate or interprets simple display of affection, like smiling, hugging or merely pat on the shoulder or head will tick him off. Christopher showed his skills in math particularly resembling different things may be side or colors and understands prime numbers. On the other hand, Henry has ability to focus on one subject particularly dinosaurs. Both boys live in their own world that stagnate their ability to master simply thing that we took, those of us that does not have Autism, for granted-imaginations and ability to make connection, connecting the dots. They, both Christopher and Henry lack fluency of communications skills compared to their peers. Henry, unlike Christopher, can explain what he feels for each person. Both boys like to play with animals and spend enormous time with, either playing or imagining, that they are playing with animals. The movie was interesting and informative.
I think child with Autism, if discovered or noticed at early age, and given required medical attention such as therapy, the child can lead normal adult life and that is great news. Keeping parents informed about this disorder is one simply ways to curb the pain it could have caused to child in adult life.

Lexi

When I first read the book "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" I thought that Christopher was the only kid in the world who could ever act the way he acts based on the illness he has. After Watching "The Musical", I realized that Christopher was not the only kid who acts the way he acts. In fact, every one kid out of 250 are like Christopher (The Musical). There is this one girl named Lexi who I thought was like Christopher. There was this one moment in Lexi's life, when younger, that she closed her eyes, held her ears shut and basically just ignored everybody. This made me think of Christopher's black days Christopher ignores people and does not talk to any one that whole day. This situation resembles Lexi's time when she ignored everybody. Probably she was having her own type of black day. She seemed like a shy person who does not like to interact a lot. Her mother usually did not touch her either. This is how Christopher and his parents are. Christopher and his dad would usually put their hands by each other to replace hugging.
Another person who I thought was more like Christopher was Wyatt. Wyatt seemed like a normal kid for most of the time. He seems to know that he is in a class where everybody needs special help. He realizes that he is smarter than everybody. Christopher feels the same way about his class too. Henry is very smart kid who knows a lot about dinosaurs. I feel like Christopher resembles this kid in way, because Christopher knows many things about numbers and space.

Autism

The film helps me better to understand the character Christopher in The Curious Incident of Dog in the Night- Time, because the film shows as how Autism kids act. There are many ways that the film and the book are related with Henry and Christopher. The major things that Christopher and Henry are related to are the fallowing, they both live their own world, and they like and care animals, they also have only one friend. These kids are genes because they are good with at math. The autisms kids in the film did not associated with the other kids in school witch similar to Christopher. The reason why they don’t associated with the other kids because of their reaction. When Christopher has too much information he gets upset and he scram loud. Also Henry when he heard loud music or when he seems too many people around him he get upset same as like Christopher he cover his ears, and he start scram. They both are smart kids so that how they related, because they focused same things. The Autism kids in the film they don’t have eye contact with other people who are normal. Their beavers are too much than others because they are autistic kids. The film of autism shows me exactly something that Christopher does in the book.

Autism

In the movie of autism I learned that the characters in the movie and Christopher have some similarities. The movie said the people who have autism see things differently and they act differently some of them don’t have emotions they don’t socialize. That remand me Christopher how he don’t like the colors yellow or brown and how he don’t have emotions. Christopher he don’t like the police because he don’t like to be touched, so if the police touched him he will hit them which means he don’t care about the police but he don’t like to be touched. Also Henry and Christopher have some similar things like they both are astronaut and smart they focus on one thing and they have passion on one thing also they don’t like to be too loud, because the people who have autism things everyone is on his own world like Wyatt in the movie said “Everyone is on his own world” and he said they are bully also Christopher said “Everyone in his school is stupid” (Haddon 71.) because they both see people differently. After I watched the movie, I understand why Christopher doesn’t like to spend most of his time with people because Christopher like to spends his time with computers and rats. The movie also describes the types of autism there are. Each one of the kids had a different type of autism. It made them act differently. All of the kids dealt with pressure all most the same. They went to the corner and try to shut their mind out so they wont be able to hear what is going on around them. Christopher goes under something or he put a radio in his ears and blocks out. They can’t take so much information coming at them at the same time.

The film, Autism: The Musical, helped me to better understand Christopher in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in many ways. The Film talked about Autism as a neurological disorder that sometimes made sounds and colors seem more intense for the people who have it. It said that some of these people are non-verbal while others are highly verbal and it can cause children to "be in their own world." The film's description of the disorder helped me to understand why, in the book, Christopher did a lot of the things he did such as groaning when it is too loud for him. Henry, from the film, reminded me most of Christopher. The film stated that Henry has Asperger's syndrome, a form of Autism, that is possibly the same form of Autism Christopher has. Henry did not like loud noises and doesn't really like to socialize. Henry also is very smart in specific things such as reptiles and dinosaurs. Christopher also doesn't like loud noises and does not do much socializing. Christopher says that he does not like chatting, which he describes as "Where people say things to each other which aren't questions and answers and aren't connected" (Haddon 40.) Also, Christopher is very smart when it comes to maths and sciences, just like Henry is with dinosaurs. The other children in the movie also did things similar to the things that Christopher does. Adam, an eight year old from the film, screamed when his mom tried to grab him, and then he ran to hide. Christopher also does not like being touched, as demonstrated when the police officer tried to grab him to pick him up. Overall, the film didn't necessarily help me to understand exactly why people with Autism do the things they do, but seeing real children with Autism helped me better understand some of the things Christopher does.

the relations between the book and the movie

I feel like Henry relates to Christopher a little better. Henry has a passion for dinosaurs and Christopher is really interested in math and numbers. They both focus on one thing at the moment. They block out everything else around them. They want to find out more and more about it and they don’t put anything else in their minds. In the movie the kids with autism didn’t associate with the other kids at school, and that was similar to Christopher. They all show more interest in what is around them little bit more than people without autism do. They lack the emotions to understand other people and that disconnects them from the humans. But they all showed some what connection to each other. Some of them related little more than the others. Henry showed the most relation because he was interested in one thing and focused on it. Christopher screams and blocks out when he feels like there is too much information coming at him at the same time. The kids in the movie went to the corner of the room when they felt frustrated. People with autism see things differently then people who don’t have it. They see and experience things that we don’t usually bother looking at. They have their own little world inside their minds, which they go to just to be safe and calm. Christopher relates to these kids in so many levels that a person with autism would only understand. People don’t understand why they do the things they do, and they thing it’s weird but they just don’t understand it.

Autism

The film help me understand a lot about the charter Christopher in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time because the film show us how the kids with autism behavior. For me what help most understand Christopher in film was Neal because he has behavior problem just Christopher descried in his book. Also in the book I could not understand when he said don’t like people touch him, but the film make it so much clear because show it us why most Autism’s people Locke emotions and how they don’t like lone noise. How they don’t like bight light. In the film it also said most the autism kids are scarred of the world so it crazy so that why they are in their only litter world. That why Christopher is his only litter world. In the book it Christopher feel more around dogs and rats than human being. It also said Christopher spends most of his time playing computer games and hanging out with his pet rat. That show us that Christopher don’t fit in the human but he think fit more wit animals. In the film there this boy name Henry and he like most Christopher because they both in their world. They are both very intelligent in their our way. Henry is good at one subject and the subject is dinosaur. Christopher is good at math and science. Henry has too much thing on in head so don’t talk to kids that much. He is same as Christopher and Christopher said he like computer . He has to close eye when there too much in head. Most Autism and Asperge’s syndrome kids are very good one subjects

Paper 1 - David Girgis

My paper is about how many people think that being in the military justifies killing people. I, however, do not believe so. I believe that we don't have to use violence to resolve conflicts. I believe that we can do this like negotiations to not have to put people in danger. I also believe that when the military justifies killing people, the people in the military dehumanize the people they kill. This is wrong and leads to my last opinion against this issue. I think that we are all equal and we are all human beings. We are a part of one of the smartest species around and to take away a life with a gunshot is wrong.

Yo, high school failed to teach me how to manage my time. I say this because, this is how i feel right now. when I started to go to college, I did not know what to do and when to do it. but when I used to go to high school I had so much free time that this issue was not a problem. man high school coused this. If only they gave me some kinds of excercise to teach me that college would not be fun in games and time would be a critical issue, then man I would of know that I had to get it together.

What are the Advantages of being a stay at Home Father? AN how does Society look at it? And do we really give them the credit they deserve?

American Lifestyle And World Hunger.

If you knew your actions had an affect on others would you still behave the same?

World over there are those who cant afford to buy food. Day in and day out they go bed with an empty stomach.

The children are so skinny that you can count their ribs. Their heads seem to be much bigger than the rest of thier body. Now that i have painted a particial image of what hunger is doing to people all over the world let me show you how you are contributing to their problems. Recently here in the U.S oil companies started to produce fuel consisting of half corn half oil and called it ethanol. Now the cars we drive consume ethanol as fuel. Knowing what ethanol is made of and knowing there are people who are dying of hunger would you be willing to change your life style to help those in need?

Why Do a lot Of People Think College Is So Hard?

One possiility is that your high school prepared you better for college than the high schools your classmates attended.Even a good student at a average high school may struggle with the more careful stress of a college set of courses because they're not prepared for the course load or they never learned how to write proper essay.Also,many bright students are able to coast through high school. There's so much repetition that they can only half pay attention,is covered once and then the professorr moves on.If your notes aren't good and you haven't read the course materrial,you aren't going to remember what you need to know for exams.So the edge in college really goes to students who've learned how to discipline themselves to take good notes,read the coursework and study for exams.

Why do people Smoke?

Who wants to die? no body, but Smokers. why i do i say this? because smoking is a sign of death. smoking causes variety of diseases and kills you. the funny thing is smokers are aware of their concequences, but why do they smoke?

The fact is people smoke because they think is fascinating. mostly teenagers smoke to be mature or to act mature. grown people smoke to reduce their pressure or stress. overall people smoke to be sociable. this is a life taking risk, we shouldn't be playing around with, its not sociable. it doesn't reduce your pressure its puts under pressure. teenagers should know that being mature is making the right choice. smokers should rethink about their concequences.

Teen Drivers

Why teenager's are putting risky their life?How do they stay a way from car accidents?Espeally age 16-17 they are too young to drive.And teens are driving drung even thougt they are not allowed to drink by the law.Most of teens don't wear seat belts while they are driving.

When you see a Muslim woman wearing the Hijab, what comes to your mind automatically? Isn’t the first thing that usually comes to the minds of people is that this woman is being oppressed. You might wonder or think why Muslim-Woman chooses to cover their head? These questions have been asked by many different people. Many Muslim woman believers that they do not need to display their beauty to the world. But question is why are Muslim-Woman are look down in Western culture?

breaking the rules

Did we ever stop and ask why we break the rules almost everyday? we ignore the rules and live everyday as we didn't do anything wrong. whats so interesting about this is , we choose the rules we want to break. for example we wont go to the street and kill someone, but we will speed or plagiarize, and even lie. why do we do these things over and over again? we do these things because we don't think the consequences will be major or we we wont get caught.but is it really worth it to break all of these rules and think its OK because we wont get caught? well i think not, matter fact i think we should make an overt to follow the rules in general. even though we have people who force the rules on us we still don't follow them. think about why we even have these rules and the reason behind it. if it wasn't for our safety we wouldn't even have these rules. so when you break a rule think about the harm you might cause. and what if someone gets hurt because you didn't care. its all of these things we should be thinking before we even think about breaking a rule. and who knows it can really change the way we think about all of these rules.

HEy

Does anybody no ABOUT STAY AT HOME DADS?

The Advantage and disadvantages of technology

In my opinion I think technology is advantage in a younger people, is it only me or every body agree with me ?