I think there's been too much publicity about this condition in the media recently, so I didn't feel like this was anything groundbreaking. However, it was well written. 
 Favorite Quotes: 
 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon 
 And people are different from animals because they can have pictures on the screens in their heads of things which they are not looking at. They can have pictures of someone in another room. Or they can have a picture of what is going to happen tomorrow. Or they can have pictures of themselves as an astronaut. Or they can have pictures of really big numbers. Or they can have pictures of Chains of Reasoning when they're trying to work something out. 
 And that is why a dog can go to the vet and have a really big operation and have metal pins sticking out of its leg but if it sees a cat it forgets that it has pins sticking out of its leg and chases after the cat. But when a person has an operation it has a picture in its head of the hurt carrying on for months and months. And it has a picture of all the stitches in its leg and the broken bone and the pins and even if it sees a bus it has to catch it doesn't run because it has a picture in its head of the bones crunching together and the stitches breaking and even more pain. 
 And there is life on earth because of an accident. But it is a very special kind of accident. And for this accident to happen in this special way, there have to be 3 conditions. And these are 
 1. Things have to make copies of themselves (this is called Replication) 
 2. They have to make small mistakes when they do this (this is called Mutation) 
 3. These mistakes have to be the same in their copies (this is called Heritability)