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

from juniperSun

This book is the dream of every mother of an autistic child. We know there are mysteries being pondered in our child's brain. We know they are more intelligent than they behave. I read this aloud to my autistic son, and "Naoki" story became part of the story string he would ask for. Readers just ...

from mykl-s

Literature shows us what other kinds of lives we could have lived, how we could have been different sorts of persons, how we are in some way like every other person on the planet. That's why I found this book of interest.

from PilgrimJess

"Everybody has a heart that can be touched by something." "The Reason I Jump", written by Naoki Higashida and translated by David Mitchell (author of Cloud Atlas) and his wife is short in length but each word is purposeful. What is remarkable is that Naoki was only 13 when he wrote the book and ...

from rayski

A very insightful book into the mind of autism. So sad to see how trapped inside an autistic person is, yet in other ways it was very uplifting to see that an autistic person isn't the lost person one might believe them to be. The author is able to understand, think and put often complex thoughts...

from GlenRH

This was very informative and helped me to understand what it is to be autistic. The author was a teenage boy used some very illustrative imagery to convey his struggles. It also help me to understand something about how the typical autistic's mind worked. I highly recommend this to every person ...