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The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

โœ Scribed by Higashida, Naoki

Book ID
107576065
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Year
2013
Tongue
en-US
Weight
3 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780812994872

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โœฆ Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

You've never read a book like The Reason I Jump. Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within.

Using an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable to speak out loud, Naoki answers even the most delicate questions that people want to know. Questions such as: ''Why do people with autism talk so loudly and weirdly?'' ''Why do you line up your toy cars and blocks?'' ''Why don't you make eye contact when you're talking?'' and ''What's the reason you jump?'' (Naoki's answer: ''When I'm jumping,...

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Author Information: Naoki Higashida was born in Kimitsu, Japan in 1992. He was diagnosed with autism in 1998 and subsequently attended a school for students with special needs, then (by correspondence) Atmark Cosmopolitan High School, graduating in 2011. Having learnt to use a method of communicatio