Send In The Idiots Analysis

In today’s world, one in 88 children has autism (Glicksman). Kamran Nazeer was one of those children. He mentions in the introduction to the book Send in the Idiots: Stories From the Other Side of Autism that he went to an elementary school in New York with all autistic students. Nazeer, now out of college, is on a mission to contact his former peers from this school. In doing so, Nazeer learns how other autistic individuals cope with the problems of which he also struggles. Additionally, he gives the reader a new insight on autism as he shares stories from families and their autistic loved ones. Kamran Nazeer captures a broad spectrum of autism, and displays the roller-coaster lifestyle that comes with the disability.
First, Nazeer visits his friend Andre at his home in Boston. Andre lives with his sister and works as a computer science researcher. As Nazeer explains more about Andre, several abnormal behaviors surface: like brushing air off of his shoulder, bringing
Randall shares a home with his partner Mike and works as a deliveryman. While Nazeer is visiting, a group of men decide to play a mean spirited prank on Randall. They ask him to deliver a gun from one location to the next, a delivery that will never end. The idea behind this “joke” is to keep Randall going from place to place while he carries a gun. Randall does not recognize that this is a joke, but rather believes that he is doing his job as a deliveryman. Thus, Nazeer introduces “mind-blindness”, found in the textbook as the theory of mind. Theory of mind is the idea that autistic people have a difficult time understanding that other people have thoughts that differ from theirs. So, as Randall goes innocently to deliver the gun, theory of mind tells us that he may never grasp that this is someone’s idea of a trick. Instead, Randall is victimised and will go on delivering the package and become the butt of a