If people touch him, he will hit them, If his senses become overloaded' or his brain too confused', he will curl up in a ball and groan loudly, perhaps for hours at a time. His world needs order and precision and he will do a math problem in his head for hours just to pass the time or distract him from an unpleasant situation. His love for order explains his need for mathematics, which is entirely based on logic, not emotion. Christopher relies on order throughout his day to day life and his dislike for unfamiliar situations has always limited his abilities.
His journey to London proves to be just as difficult as his familiar world is thrown into chaos and he must learn to cope with new situations. On the train Christopher is frightened as he has never been on his own before and the loud noises and people make him feel like there is a balloon inside [his] chest'. Christopher's solution to the problem was to shut himself in a cupboard so [he] couldn't hear people talking' and solve quadratic equations'. It is in this moment we see just how desperate he is to find some pattern which will enable him to make sense of the …show more content…
Christopher doesn't like to be touched and finds it difficult to express affection as he finds people confusing' because they do a lot of talking without using any words'. When Christopher is told that his mother is in hospital he isn't upset by the news but excited because of the uniforms and machines'. When she dies he doesn't feel sad because [he] would be feeling sad about something that isn't real and didn't exist', once again proving that his disability has affected his ability to understand human emotions. When he arrives at his mother's house in London, her first reaction was to put her arms around Christopher. Christopher pushes her away because [she] was grabbing [him]'.To Christopher, this is quite a normal reaction as he cannot understand the value of this highly emotional