In the interview with Mark Haddon you learn that he has worked over 20 years with disability adults and young children, the disabilities go from learning all the way to physical. The Character Christopher Boone was constructed from someone he knows that hasn’t yet been marked as “disability” On perspective you learn in this interview is from his friend Dave Cohen (professor of mathematics at London University, also the guy behind all the math problems in the book). He tells Mark,“The novel isn't about a person with Asperger syndrome is it? It’s a novel about a young mathematician with some behavioral issues.” Most people that read the novel infer it is about autism and try to relate to that topic, but that is how Mark intended it to go. These
