Elated Lawsuit Authoritarians...........(Take 5)

    In "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime", there are many social issues. First of all, there's the most obvious. in the beginning of the book, Mrs. Shears' dog is murdered with a garden fork. Her neighbor Christopher decides that he'll find out who committed the crime. The second most obvious issue is that Christopher is an autistic child who hates yellow and brown, hates being touched, and can multiply 251 times 864 mentally within seconds. Although he's great at math, Christopher has difficulty in common situations, and cannot tell lies. Christopher's mother is dead, so he is living alone with his father at the time, which is another issue, but they manage to limp along with everyday life.
    Later in the book, Christopher snoops around and discovers that his mother is not dead, and has been sending him letters for years. His father has kept this secret all along. Christopher's father also confesses that he killed Mrs. Shears' dog.
    All of the above social issues fall into the category of "Facing your fears". Christopher's dad strictly forbids him to investigate the murder of Mrs. Shears' dog, yet he does. Christopher, once he finds out his father killed the dog, is so scared for his own safety that he runs away to live with his mother in London. However, Christopher is still very afraid of normal things, and doesn't know much about how to get to London. But he soldiers onward, and asks a stranger for directions, buys a train ticket, takes the subway, is touched, and ventures out alone all by himself, and forces himself to do all of these fears of his.