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I HAVE NOT GIVEN UP BTW!! It is slow going and obviously I'm very inconsistent with it but I have not stopped. Bíonn mé ag léamh go fóill!

I swear to god Both of his parents are terrible at looking after him. He needs someone else coz they're both USELESS

This book also does a good job of showing how police may seem helpful and trustworthy, but ultimately they are not necessarily looking out for your best interests, might not listen to you when you rightfully feel unsafe, and don't know how to work with disabled people

My brain doesn't necessarily work the same as Christopher's, I'm not as interested in maths as he is, but him trying to get a train is a good representation of why it's so hard to do it. Like yeah for a neurotypical person, "get a train" is one step, but it's much more massive and difficult for us. It's like everyone is walking on a path and we're wading through a swamp

Holy shit he needs to get the FUCK out of this house. It's 3am I am still awake. I need to never ever start reading past midnight

Also the spelling mistakes in these letters have GOT to be on purpose

His mother is definitely flawed, very much so, but she did the best thing a flawed person can do (assuming they can't change) which is relinquishing responsibility she couldn't handle, being a mother, while still trying to be present in her son's life. She definitely fucked up, but she also made a good choice to get out of a shitty situation where she was harmful to christopher.

Good news I wasn't wrong to think this family is really fucked up. Bad news this family is REALLY fucked up. I am so fucking sorry christopher you don't deserve this horribly dysfunctional family life.

Dude what the hell. Is this about a lot more than a dead dog??? Is this all a misunderstanding or is the dad actually evil

Never mind any positive thing I thought about them, fuck both of his parents. Abusive bastards

I get that his dad has obviously had a terrible time and is going through some stuff but my god can he stop yelling and cursing at his son and talk to him like an adult. Get a fucking grip

I have a superiority complex specifically when it comes to helping autistic people. *I* could explain things in a way that makes sense to him! I could do it better than ALL of you in his life! "Ohh I don't know how to deal with him!!!1" SKILL ISSUE.

So far I like how it neither demonises autism nor pretends it's not a disability. Christopher being different is both not inherently bad, and also makes his life harder

I love you autistic people. Maybe a little stereotypical but hey some people happen to align with stereotypes. I really like Christopher, it makes me happy when people do a good job at being accommodating to him, and I feel like the book isn't mocking him, it wants you to see his point of view. I hope he figures out who killed the dog and everybody tells him he's awesome coz he deserves it

Reading a book in a second language (Irish) is not super easy and it is slowww but it's really fun and satisfying feeling like I am understanding. I love you Irish. Is aoibhinn liom an Ghaeilge, tá an aistriúchán an-suimiúil. Tá an leabhar an-taitneamhach, is scríbhneoir greannmhar é Roald Dahl agus is aistritheoir den scoth í Niamh Ní Argáin

"Machines are stealing our jobs!" But it's philosophers trying to turn off the super computer that will tell people the meaning of life. "No, we won't have any work to do!!"

"Look", said Arthur, "would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"

Arthur ideal fish out of water protagonist. He's so done he's losing his shit he has no idea what's going on he's losing his mind

"(Arthur guessed (quite wrongly)"

This guy altered his own brains to the point that he gets these wild achievements but doesn't even remember wanting them in the first place, he just does them because he doesn't have any capacity for comprehending his own desires. And then he finds out that HE WAS THE ONE WHO DID IT? Because HIS INITIALS ARE BURNED INTO HIS BRAIN? WHAT THE FUCK?

[comedy comedy comedy Psychological Torment] WHAT

This guy is the classic brainless "charming" asshole politician-type (except he's a genius) and then he goes "yeah lol I keep doing miraculously clever things and not remembering why I even did them it's like I'm disconnected from my own mind. Ends up my brain has been altered, and I was the one who did it. Anyway" EXCUSE ME ??

The computer on a ship singing you'll never walk alone as the captain yells at it to shut up and nobody can pilot the ship because none of them learned how

A robot that is aware that it exists and doesn't like it at all is Wonderful
Poor Marvin the depressed robot

INFINITE HAMLET MONKEYS??????????

Douglas Adams writes the stupidest funniest shit in such a matter of fact tone

Oh hey, the "space is really big" quote

'"Resistance is useless!" shouted the Vogon guard. It was the first phrase he'd learned when he joined the Guard Corps'
Insert anti cop comment here.

Douglas you are crazy what the fuck are you talking about

Arthur not being able to process losing everything and everyone he's ever known, so having to think much smaller, like a stranger he saw at the shop, or a monument, certain movies, is honestly very moving. But also "There is longer any such thing as a McDonald's hamburger. He passed out" is funny as hell

Oh hey, the ear fish!

Falls for the classic sci-fi problem of "this species has these traits, this character has this flaw because of what he is"