An autistic woman is experiencing a severe episode of a debilitating long-term special interest, sources have revealed.
Megan Aldrich, 47, has lived with a life-altering obsession with the detective novelist Agatha Christie since she was seven years old, but until recently believed she had the condition under control.
“Although I’d been told I was just in remission, I really thought I was cured after they did that godawful adaptation of Death on the Nile where they gave Poirot’s moustache its own backstory. I didn’t even want to re-read the book to point out all the ways they’d ruined it.”
Aldrich had reportedly lived without Christie-itis for nearly three years, but recently found her symptoms reemerging. “At first it was just normal stuff: you turn on the TV, one of the Suchet Poirots is playing, you think you’ll watch through to the end. Everyone has the occasional little relapse like that, don’t they? But it slowly took over my life again.”
“I found myself looking on eBay to see if I could find an original copy of And Then There Were None from before they took all the slurs out,” Aldrich added. “It’s only a matter of time now before I’m reduced to Tommy & Tuppence books.”
“Promise me, if it gets that bad, you won’t let me live like that? Please just kill me. In the drawing-room of an old mansion house, using an untraceable poison you brought back from the Far East”.
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