It is the very first impression of a person, the way they stand or sit, how they hold their hands, the facial expressions they show or the line of sight of their eyes.

Non-Verbal Communication has 3 features.

It is about using a combination of the above to convey the message that you want others to hear.

- Siobhan^(Ch.07)

- Randyman (Animal) ^{(Ch. 137)}
- Patagonian Sealions ^{(Ch. 137)}
- Maliku (Animal) ^{(Ch. 137)}
- Wildlife documentations
- Sherlock Holmes ^{(Ch. 139)}
-hospitals
-order ^{(Ch. 47)}
-capital cities
-machines
-wet and cold grass ^{(Ch. 5)}

Dislikes:
- Strangers ^{(Ch. 67)}
- to be touched / hit ^{(Ch. 5)}
- to be screamed at ^{(Ch. 5)}
- Proper novels ^{(Ch. 7)}

- the color yellow ^(Ch.131)
  -> Custard (Vanille Pudding)
  -> Bananas
  -> Double Yellow Lines
  -> Yellow Fever
  -> Yellow Flowers
  -> Sweetcorn

- the color brown ^{(Ch. 131)}
  -> Dirt
  -> Gravy
  -> Poo
  -> Wood
  -> Melissa Brown
  -> bananas turn brown

- France ^{(Ch. 73)}
- being in small places with others
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author of Sherlock Holmes stories)
-swimming
- jokes ^{(Ch. 13)}
- emotions
- to be laughed at
- not to know whats going on
-dead animals
-metaphors
-cloudy days ^{(Ch. 41)}

Christopher is a 15 year old boy with Asberger's Syndrome. He can not handle non-verbal communication because he does not understand the meaning of it.We decided to compare his communication in the beginnng/middle with his communication at the end. He mostly does not communicate non-verbal. When he is scared or overwhelmed with a situation he rolls “back onto the lawn and [presses his ] forehead to the ground […] and [makes] the noise that [his] father calls groaning.“ (chap. 11) When he is being touched in a way that he doesnt like, he hits people. (chap.11 ) he says „ if a strange man touched [him he] would hit him. […] For example, when [he] punched Sarah because she had pulled [his] hair [he] knocked her unconscious ans she had concussion.“ (chap.67) He does not like people he does not know because „they are hard to understand“ for him.(chap.67). He tries to communicate with strangers by asking questions like „what kind of car they drive, so [he gets] to know them.“ (chap.67). Non-verbally he can not look „at people´s faces, especially if they are strangers.“ (chap.67) so he indirectly shows a lack of interest without wanting it. In chapter 179 he wants to go to london because he found out his mother lives there. Then he asks his neighbour if she can „look after [his] rat Toby“. Then he tells her exactly what she is allowed to feed him for example „special pellets [which] you can buy […] fro a pet shop. But [she] can also [feed him] biscuits and carrots and bread and chicken bone.“ But then he says really straight what she is not allowed to do with hin for example „give him chocolate because it´s poisonous for rats“. In this chapter it is not much easier for him to talk o strangers. He wanted to ask someone for a map and while he does that he „tightly [held his swiss army knife][…] so thet [he] could stab someone if they grabbed“ him. But then he asks a lady with a pushchair .