For example, when Christopher was trying to find the train station, he created a map in his head to figure out how to find it. Christopher said: “I made a plan. I knew the train station was somewhere nearby. And if something is nearby you can find it by spiraling, walking clockwise, and taking every right turn until you end up back on a road you've already walked on” [pg. 140] Christopher had trouble finding the train station and solved the problem by creating a visual image in his head of how to get there. When Christopher was in the train station he was trying to read the signs to look for his destination, but when he tried to read all he read were letters, numbers…. For example, a part of the book where Christopher is reading, "'the reef café bar business travel special edition TOP 75 ALBUMS Evening Standard' But after a few seconds they looked like this 'aspecitionTOP7UMSEvedard.'" This shows that because of his autism he had difficulty reading and this led to him not knowing where to go. To solve this problem Christopher says: “And then I made my hand into a little tube with my fingers and I opened my eyes and looked through the tube so that I was only looking at one sign at a time and after a long time I saw a sign which said Information." [p. 169] Christopher finds a solution to his problem by focusing on just one sign at a time and taking things
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