This insight, more than any of the other learning he had undertaken around autism, has enabled father and son to live well together. By entering into the real life experience of Naoki, he was more able to understand his own son’s life. Rather than have a story written about him, he wrote his own and became a published author in his own right.ĭavid Mitchell, himself a father of a child on the spectrum of autism, penned the introduction to the book and worked on translating the story from Japanese into English to reach a wider audience.
The book tells of how Naoki Higashida, alongside his mother and teacher Ms Suzuki, took the space and time to learn a creative way of communicating which enabled Naoki to tell his own story. The story of The Reason I Jump: One Boy’s Voice from the Silence of Autism, offers the reader a whole person – seen from their own perspective, revealing their own experience of living on the spectrum. I find that many of the books talk about people rather than with them.īut this book really breaks the mould. I have come across many authors who seek to define the lives and experiences of disabled people – especially those on the spectrum of autism. An insight into one boy’s world told in his own words In this article she shares why this book is so valuable and brings much to learn from. It gives an exceptional chance to enter the mind of another and see the world from a fascinating perspective.Ĭristina Gangemi works for Livability and is a specialist in the field of disability and communication. Written by a thirteen year-old boy ‘Naoki Higashida’ and translated by the award winning Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell, the book gives his perspectives and experience of a life on the spectrum of autism.ĭavid Mitchell and his wife have translated Naoki’s book so that it might help others dealing with autism and generally illuminate a little-understood condition. In 2014, a new book hit the shelves: ‘The Reason I Jump: One Boy’s Voice from the Silence of Autism’.
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