Riley Venne Post #3

I find it surprising that an autistic child has the confidence to walk around New York
City, alone, and invite himself into strangers houses and apartments. All of my knowledge about autistic children, contradicts the behavior that Oskar preforms throughout the book. from everything that I have read in the past, I have concluded that Autistic children are not social people whatsoever; but now, after reading half of, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, My views have changed completely.I now realize  much more than I have in the past, that autism is a spectrum disorder, and there are hundreds of different cases, each one unique in it's own way. I know that many autistic kids have certain topics that they are very knowledgeable on, and for Oskar I believe that his is Shakespeare's Play, Hamlet. This was another surprise to me because, for the most part, autistic people specialize in topics such as, math, puzzles, and science. When I look at Oskar's interests they seem to be completely different. He is quite interested in English and the history of the language.