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Christopher Boone is surrounded by an exceptional amount of people that care about him. The only challenge in front of the people that care about Christopher is that they are unable to understand how he feels. The way he acts may be different from how a person without aspergers acts but he needs others to understand him. He needs to be handled in a certain way. He needs time to think and make decisions. It’s hard for him to understand how he is suppose to act in situations. In many situations he is unable to show emotion quickly because he doesn’t understand emotion. He might understand many things that a someone without aspergers don’t understand. But things that he is unable to understand people without aspergers understand. As Christopher

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