Best POV

It was only once that I had been with a kid who has special needs. It was not a pleasant experience. I was still a grade school teacher back then and he is a grandchild of the owners of the school. The parents were thinking to actually include the boy in my class, so he sat in with my second graders. The fact that I was not trained to handle his kind did no favor to me. It was like all hell broke lose in that day. The class was fascinated to him, as they know that something is different about him. It was not my best day as a teacher and I seriously thought of resigning if they insist that this child will be my student. Thankfully, that was the last time I saw and heard of that child. I have nothing against children like him. I just know that I am not the best teacher for him and my class will be unmanageable should he be in it. If there is one good thing that happened when I met him is that I realized that taking up Special Education as my Masters degree would be a bad idea. I know myself enough to realize that I am not built to undergo much stress and responsibility to deal with this kind of student. I sincerely salute the dedicated teachers of these special children.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon has the most unique point of view in a book. He is Christopher, the autistic and gifted hero of the story. He has his own world but he is independent and productive in real life. He bases everything in logic, rules and order but he doesn’t know what feelings and emotions are. The book offers a detective work, adventure to the big city and family drama. What set the novel apart is that it welcomes us to an unreachable realm which most ‘normal’ people misunderstands or ignores and be aware, hopefully freed, from our misconceptions and misjudgments.