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For my final project, I am proposing a critical project that questions the inability for like minded individuals who share common mental disabilities to communicate and understand with those who are the opposite. The outside correlation stems the question of “how does the inability to communicate, within the community of mental diverse individuals towards those without disabilities, cause a major complication that is supported within this novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. This question stemmed from the faults that the main character, Christopher, has throughout the novel. Christopher has Asperger’s syndrome which is a form of autism that causes him to express himself in a straightforward way while making it difficult

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