Fabian and Christopher

Author's Note: I wrote this piece because we have just recently finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and we had to write a piece on it, so this is what I did. I was supposed to write it about text analysis and it sort of is, but I already finished that goal so my piece is a little different. 

For Christopher, everything has its way, and everything has a pattern. His day stays mostly the same constantly. Without a standard schedule that he lays out for himself, he feels off and it just isn't right. He has to teach himself subjects because it is confusing otherwise. For Fabian, nothing has a pattern that anyone can see, just him. His day is always changing. With a standard schedule, he feels calm. Fabian needs to be taught all the subjects, because it is too difficult to concentrate otherwise. Fabian, in my mom's fourth grade class, and Christopher, from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, are similar and different in a couple of ways. 

Everything has to be perfectly perfect and nothing can be off...Not. This is how Fabian and Christopher are different. Fabian doesn't always have an organized schedule, however this causes him to have break downs. He needs to be helped by somebody else to make it, too. Christopher has his own mental schedule, and he does what he likes to do, when he feels it is necessary. Another way that they are different is that they Christopher is much brighter than Fabian. Because Fabian comes from a family that speaks Spanish all the time, he had to adjust to English at school and that really confuses him with learning and it makes it more difficult. 

In case you haven't been able to tell, because I haven't made it a statement yet, Fabian is autistic. This is the main way that him and Christopher are similar. They both shared the same difficulties when they were young and they went on their own path from there and that is how I believe that they are similar, mainly. Another way that they are similar, is that their parents are split up or divorced. This has made it more difficult on both of them because they either don't know their other parent is alive, or they have to go between households.

Christopher and Fabian, two people with the same disease, autism, are different and similar in a couple of ways. This just goes on to show that just because some people around the same age level are diagnosed with the same disease, nothing is perfectly similar or precisely different in either of them. They are their own person and they function just how they want to and need to, and that is what is important.