Similarities Between Sherlock Holmes And Christopher Boone

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Comparing Sherlock Holmes with Christopher Boone

Did Sherlock Holmes himself encounter any form of autism? Do you think Sherlock Holmes and Christopher Boone encounter differences instead of sharing similarities? Sherlock Holmes was known as a famous autistic detective in the 1800 's (Sherlock Holmes biography). It was unclear how he could solve crimes on such little knowledge of the information. Sherlock Holmes was not autistic. For a long time, everyone was sure he had a case of the Asperger 's syndrome. In this case, Sherlock Holmes 's did not have Asperger 's syndrome or autism at all. Sherlock Holmes was born January 6th, 1854. Sherlock Holmes was the resident of 221B Baker Street. London (Sherlock Holmes biography). For more than 100 years, he has been acknowledged and very famous in every country of the world. Sherlock Holmes became legendary not only by his name but his appearance as well. "The hawk-like features and piercing eyes; the dressing-gown and pipe; the deerstalker cap and magnifying glass" He still remains a mysterious figure
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Christopher Boone and Sherlock Holmes both share certain behaviors. For example, they both had a really vivid memory. They both are characters of a novel trying to solve crimes (The Curious Incident of the dog in the night-time). For some reason they both had fragile social issues, and only could trust very few people. Sherlock Holmes could only trust John H Watson his best friend (Sonya Freeman-Loftis. "The Autistic Detective: Sherlock Holmes and his legacy"). Christopher actually was able to gain some trust with his parents even though he had to deal with a few lies, like a rocky rollercoaster. He certainly gained a lot more trusting relationship with his teacher Siobhan. These suspicious characters both did not have a sexual attraction towards women

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