Book "Don Quixote de la Mancha" - Cervantes

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Did somebody read the book "Don Quixote de la Mancha" - Cervantes?

I read it before knowing I was an Aspie. This book helped me understand lots of things that an Aspie usually don't. To my opinion, the character "Don Quixote de la Mancha" is a typical Aspie.
Cervantes tells its story: Don Quixote evolves in the course of the book and Don Quixote's companions evolve as well.

I would recommend this book to any Asperger who likes literature. You see yourself as "the others" see you and understand who you are, your interactions with others (very interesting and useful, even if truth hurts sometimes). It gives fundamental clues for dealing with it and find your place (therefore, important to read "tome 2nd" )

Written in 1605 & 1615 ...Aspie is not a new story!

If you read it, do you share my view?

Don Quixote has delusional thinking though?

How is 'delusional thinking' representative of a typical "aspie"?

You are true, i think "Delusional thinging" is not typical of "aspie"
But the "critic" of a book is also not always "the book"

I am sure Don Quixote is a typical aspie because he sticks to the profile:
- he lives completely in his own world
- no friends, no partner
- knows a lot of things on his precise points of interest
- doesn't have any clue what people want and think
- makes constantly "social mistakes" in society and is then continuously rejected
- constantly explains subjects in details which have no link with the interests of people around him, like a little teacher
- is over-sensitive to noise, reacts very strongly to stimulus
- is bullied in all groups
- has an non-conventional way of dressing
- escapes all parties and groups of people
- is very logical and detailed reasoning about the world
- but when it comes to social interactions, he is completely disabled
- continuously active, moving a lot but never travelling very far
- understands things literally
- etc.
... now, I want to add to this black list that:
1/ even with all those anti-hero Asperger characteristics,
Don Quixote is a very likable character
2/ at the end of tome 2, he is no more Asperger like at all, quite opposite

Reading the book, you will travel with Don Quixote and he will bring you to freedom.
(P.S.: i have no financial interest in litterature industry )

There are many good reasons why "Don Quixote" has stood the test of time, and has become a landmark of world literature.

I agree. I only read a little excerpt from it in my Norwegian class(like English class in Norway). He is becoming obsessed with the imagination of the chivalric novels, just like an Aspie. He doesn't physically see the windmill as a dragon, he imagines it like a dragon in his head, perhaps out of fear because of the speed and size of the windmill and its blades. It is not uncommon for autistic people to imagine something scary as something genuinely threatening.