Finished reading: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon 📚hated it. Supposedly about living as a teenage autistic math savant and I guess the author did a good job maintaining voice

@agilelisa I read it sometime before 2006, when most of us knew a lot less about autism than we do now and several years before my nephew was diagnosed, and I thought it was OK, though I haven’t been tempted to read it again since. It made me wonder whether I might have Asperger’s (to use the then current terminology). It turns out that I don’t, but I’m glad I looked into the possibility. Haddon never claimed to be an expert on the subject, or anything other than a writer of fiction, but came in for a lot of (as it seemed to me) unfair criticism as if he had held himself out as some kind of authority.