What I love about dancing

To be honest, I don’t really care much about sports. Of course I always support Norway in big sport arrangements such as OL, or the World Championship. And of course I am just as proud as the rest of Norway when Petter Northug flies ahead of his competitors, but other than that, I do not really care much about sports at all. I played football for 6 months in 7^th grade, but I don’t really understand why because I spent every match either on the bench, or out on the field trying NOT to hide from the ball as much as possible. It’s not like I hate sports either, I just never got really good at it or interested in any kind of sports at all, except from running and working out in a studio I guess.

But even though I’m not a sports person, I have always loved dancing, and I would characterize that as a sport as well. I have been taking balletlessons since I was 4 years old, until very recently when I injuried my knee and I had to quite. I still love ballet though, and hope that maybe one day, if I get an operation, maybe I can come back and start dancing again.

Even though it doesn’t involve running after a ball for hours, you still have to be incredibly strong and skilled to perform it, and to become a professional takes years of hard practice, and a lot of sweat and tears. I love ballet so much, first of all because of the great feeling it is to dance, and because of how beautiful it is to watch people perform it. I also like that it’s not about the competition, it’s not about being the best or winning the championship; It’s about performing something beautiful and artistical, about creating something unique and special and to perform it and make it mean something to the people who are watching. 

The curious incident of the dog in the night time

"What things does Christopher hate and why?"
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Christopher dislikes a lot of things, such as being touched, having different foods touching each other at the plate, lies, and when things do not go exactly as planned.

The one thing he hates that is repeated most in the book however, is the color yellow. He believes if he counts four yellow cars in a row on his way to school, it’s a black day, and that means that it Is a really bad day and he can’t do anything or take any chances. This is not rational thinking, but in Christopher head it makes sense because he needs certain specific rules in his life to keep him calm.

Here’s a paragraph from chapter 131 p 105, where Christopher explains some of the reasons for why he hate yellow so much.

“4. Yellow Fever (which is a disease from tropical America and West Africa which causes a high fever, acute nephritis, jaundice and haemorrhages, and it is caused by a virus transmittedby the bite of a mosquito called Aëdes aegypti which used to be called Stegomyia fasciata; and nephritis is inflammationof the kidneys)

5. Yellow flowers (because I get hay fever from flower pollen, which is one of the three sorts of hay fever, and the others are from grass pollen and fungus pollen, and it makes me feel ill)

6. Sweetcorn (because it comes out in your poo and you don’t digest it so you are not really meant to eat it, like grass or leaves)”

Christopher always look for the logic in things, and he needs things to be in a certain order so that he feels in control of what is going on, and he knows what is going to happen. The background for most of the things that he hates, which are listed above, is that they are disturbing the perfect order in all things around him that he needs to keep him calm. Things has to be planned, he needs to know what is going to happen.

 I think his urge to understand things and know how things work is somehow his brains way to compensate for the lack of social skills, ability to feel empathy and read peoples feelings and facial expressions, apart from being one of symptoms of his autism.