Impact on families of Autism linked to the Boone’s Family To begin with, the norm can be defined as being where the majority of the people stands. However, every single human being is different in numerous altered ways. These social, emotional, logical or artistic differences are expressed in various manners and represent the intelligence of someone. In this way, a person that is considered as being mentally ill might have some major dissimilarities with the standards, but is not necessarily an idiot. These people are simply not at the same levels as the majority of people, the norm. It is obvious that anyone who is identified as mentally ill and lives with a “normal” family will have a huge impact on individuals and on his environment. In the novel The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by the author Mark Haddon, the main character, Christopher, is an autistic child who is classified as a high functioning autistic kid. Obviously, this child has a big impact on his surrounding environments, thus, people close to him and his family. The following essay will be looking at the impact of autism on families, as well as on Boone’s family as being typical or not of the families evolving with autistic children. In order to do so, it will first examine the general impact that an autistic child has on his family and will then continue with a comparison and analysis of Boone’s family in this current situation. At the outset, it is understandable that having a child suffering from high functioning autism is especially challenging for the parents. Moreover, it affects the extended family and the surrounding. This illness surely has no impact on the love that parents have for their child. There is always something special in the relationship between any parents and their child. Except in rare cases, both parents and their child will unconditionally love each other in their respective roles. In the case of an autistic child, this one might require