The perks of being a wallflower

"...even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have," Stephen Chbosky writes in The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Charlie is a fifteen year old writing anonymous letters to an unknown person. Charlie is unemotional throughout these letters, he states that he feels things deeply and gets angry, but his narrative is consistently calm. I think this lack of emotion doesn't deprive the reader of anything though, perhaps the reader makes up for Charlie's lack of emotion by feeling it for him. This detachment also makes us feel there is something off about Charlie, in the beginning of the book I wondered if charlie might be slightly autistic... He say " I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked."The book has some great lines for thinkers of any age, such as "It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book." and "I feel infinite"