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Christopher has a good retentivity:

My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7,057.
(page 2)

Christoper has an intensive perception for details:
I see everything. That is why I don’t like new places. If I am in a place I know, like home, or school, or the bus, or the shop, or the street, I have seen almost everything in it beforehand and all I have to do is to look at the things that have changed or moved. […] But most people are lazy. They never look at everything. […] And the information in their head is really simple. For example, if they are in the countryside, it might be

  1. I am standing in a field that is full of grass.
  2. There are some cows in the field.
  3. It is sunny with a few clouds.
  4. There are some flowers in the grass.
  5. There is a village in the distance.
  6. There is a fence at the edge of the field and it has a gate in it.

And then they would stop noticing anything because they would be thinking something else like, "Oh, it is very beautiful here," or "I'm worried that I might have left the gas cooker on," or "I wonder if Julie has given birth yet."
But if I am standing in a field in the countryside I notice everything. […] I stopped and looked at the field and I noticed these things

  1. There are 19 cows in the field, 15 of which are black and white and 4 of which are brown and white.
  2. There is a village in the distance which has 31 visible houses and a church with a square tower and not a spire.
  3. There are ridges in the field, which means that in medieval times it was what is called a ridge and furrow field and people who lived in the village would have a ridge each to do farming on.
  4. There is an old plastic bag from Asda in the hedge and a squashed Coca-Cola can with a snail on it, and a long piece of orange string.
  5. The northeast corner of the filed is highest and the southwest corner is lowest […] and the field is folded downward slightly along the line between these two corners so that the northwest and southeast corners are slightly lower than they would be if the field was an inclined plane.
  6. I can see three different types of grass and two colors of flowers in the grass.
  7. The cows are mostly facing uphill.

And there were 31 more things in this list of things I noticed […].
(page 140)

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