Tuesday, May 15, 2007.
* NOTE: Christopher Boone will be used here to represent autisum*
Ahh~. I've finally logged into the blog after meeting so many dead ends and roundabouts... (Yeah! Bring out the champagne!!!) So anyway, I have a peculiar thought. It is rather insensitive I feel, not to mention the possibility of the violation of human rights. But here goes: Christopher tendency of hitting people who touch him can be trained. (That's if both my absolutely absurd theory and the book content is right.)
Weird right? However, if we look through the Curious Incident book, we realise that Christopher has a strong recognition sense of system and pattern. Is it possible that if he hits someone(let's say a teacher or perhaps Siobhan), and the person hits him back twice as hard, so on and so for, Christopher would be able to regconise the fact that if he hits someone, he gets injured too? Hopefully, this stops him from hitting people if it works.
Now, I shall state the grounds of the agruement with referance to the above statement. If we say that it is not possible. that's because (1) if it works then wouldn't it make all the world's psychologists look like total dickheads who don't do their work? (2) I haven't discuss any autisum-related person about this (3)I'm not a clever ass who knows a knack about autisum (4) My friends called me crazy (Nope, not the other three lovely ladies who share this blog) when I proposed this ideato them (5) It happened to pop into my head while I was daydreaming(Well, not exactly)
If we say yes, these are the possible reasons. Firstly, if we are able to train a child this way, why not autistic children? From what I know, small kids are being canned when they do something wrong. Overtime, them seem to be able to understand that if take snack just before dinner, they don't get dinner or if they do their homework, Mummy will take the cane out. (The bamboo one.) Since autisum seems to be able to enhance the recognition of patterns, this theory should work. Even if we agrue that it is essentially Christopher's instinct to hit people who touch him, this method have reportedly been able to made people go completely against their instincts. (In this case: Christopher's urge to hit someone who touches him.)
Then again, it is a basic human right (or reaction?) to stop someone who makes you feel uncomfortable. Even if this works, it is not because we have been able to change Christopher's mind but only because we are keeping it in control by using fear.
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P.S. If you're wondering what I was thinking about, it's more like a rip-off idea from the Turks from Final Fantasy VII.
!traces of loneliness.
10:15 PM
