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# The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism Hardcover – International Edition, August 27, 2013

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			        		#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER &#xA0;&#x201C;[The Reason I Jump] brings the fascinating quirks of the autistic mind to life.... Naoki brings us into a sometimes nightmarish world of being trapped inside a mind and body that won&#x2019;t respond as it should.... The definitive account of living with autism.&#x201D; Daily Express &#xA0;&#x201C;The Reason I Jump...offers sometimes tormented, sometimes joyous, insights into autism&#x2019;s locked-in universe.... Higashida&#x2019;s child&#x2019;s-eye view of autism is as much a winsome work of the imagination as it is a user&#x2019;s manual for parents, carers and teachers. In its quirky humour and courage, it resembles Albert Espinosa&#x2019;s Spanish bestseller, The Yellow World, which captured the inner world of childhood cancer. This book gives us autism from the inside, as we have never seen it.... Its explanation, advice and, most poignantly, its guilt...offers readers eloquent access into an almost entirely unknown world.... Descriptions of panic, distress and the isolation that autistic children feel as a result of the greater world&#x2019;s ignorance of their condition are counterbalanced by the most astonishing glimpses of autism&#x2019;s exhilaration. These are the most vivid and mesmerising moments of the book.&#x201D; The Independent&#xA0; &#xA0;&#x201C;The Reason I Jump pushes beyond the notion of autism as a disability, and reveals it as simply a different way of being, and of seeing. Naoki Higashida shines a light on the autistic landscape from the inside.&#x201D; BBC&#xA0; &#xA0;&#x201C;A 13-year-old Japanese author illuminates his autism from within, making a connection with those who find the condition frustrating, mysterious or impenetrable. For the renowned novelist David Mitchell, who provides the introduction and collaborated on the translation, this book is &#x2018;a revelatory godsend.&#x2019;... [Higashida] shows remarkable empathy and imagination.... Anyone struggling to understand autism will be grateful for the book and translation.&#x201D; Kirkus Reviews
						    	
					    	
						
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        		About the Author
        	
        	
        		
        		
	        		
						
			        		Naoki Higashida was born in 1992 and was diagnosed with autism at the age of five. He graduated from high school in 2011 and lives in Kimitsu, Japan. He is an advocate, motivational speaker and the author of several books of fiction and non-fiction. KA Yoshida was born in Yamaguchi, Japan, majored in English Poetry at Notre Dame Seishin University, and now lives in Ireland with her husband, David Mitchell, and their two children. David Mitchell&apos;s works include the international bestseller The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet; Black Swan Green; and Cloud Atlas, which was a Man Booker Prize finalist and made into a major movie released in 2012.
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A brilliant book to read
            
*by C***L on February 11, 2016*

Dear,Naoki HigashidaI bought your book originally for a college class and began reading for pleasure after a long day at work. I knew Autism was a disability that most people look down on because I live with a younger brother on the spectrum. I was prepared to read the same information I’d seen in books my parents had purchased in the past to help them raise him to be a person who could survive in modern day society. I soon found out that I was completely wrong about this. “The Reason I Jump” was nothing compared to those books. Unlike my parent’s books, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this through every page turn. Print media written by someone that has Autism, seems more helpful in comparison to something written about Autism by someone who has never lived a day in a person with Autism’s shoes. In a media course I am currently taking at Corban University in Oregon, I have learned that the society in the United States has a transmission of culture with the media. We tend to pay attention to things that capture our attention at that very moment, instead of focusing on what is right in front of us. Our societies’ greatest concern is not helping people with Autism live to the fullest of their abilities, but to be how great can we make the next smartphone or tablet so we can live in a more lavish lifestyle. We should be living a lifestyle that is not conformed. Romans 12: 2 tells us, “And not be conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” This is a passage that speaks the truth about how we should live, which is that we must learn our priorities and help others in need, instead of helping ourselves, therefore, not being conformists to the media around us.Your amazing book helped opened my eyes in such a way that it has helped me form a better relationship with my brother. I can now understand why he does certain things throughout the day that naturally make other people confused. He and I can share moments and live lives fuller since I have read your book.God Bless,Crystal
  

### ⭐⭐⭐ Somewhat uncomfortable.
            
*by M***Y on March 6, 2017*

I looked forward to reading this as a fellow autistic person. I felt uncomfortable reading it and couldn't finish it because - I know the author is young - but he speaks for all autistic people when many of us are not the same as he is. If you have met one autistic person, you have met one autistic person. Not everyone functions as he does.It is a nice jumping off point for abled people who don't know much about being autistic I guess, but it shouldn't be taken as the be all end all of what it is like to be autistic, and I am afraid it will be.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This Was an amazing Book
            
*by H***O on August 17, 2017*

There are so many books out there on autism but very few that actually give you answers. Many books give medical information or statistics that don't help when all you want to know is what an autistic child is thinking. The Reason I Jump is the best and most helpful book I have ever read. Throughout the book there are many personal answers that pertain to the life of Naoki Higashida but they may also pertain to someone else going through life with autism. This book was so great because even through Naiko gave us answers that were very clear to all question he also gave us ways to understand better. The many short stories throughout the book gave us the ability to understand exactly what he was talking about. When educating yourself on any subject it is important to walk a mile in someone else's shoes to get a firm understanding and that's what this did.When in a family with an autistic child things can get so frustrating. It is not only hard when you don't understand what our child wants but it's hard to know that they need something and you are unable to know what that something is. Naoki makes it easier for anyone to understand an autistic child. He gives you all the answers to everything you have been wondering. Even though not everyone who is autistic is the same this books gives you the ability to at least having a starting point which is important.I loved reading this book and saw it as very helpful. Although I don't have a child that is autistic or spend every day living with someone who is, I do a ton of work with an autistic child and I found this amazing. Everything I read in this book I was able to relate to that child and now I am able to handle him better when needed. This book should be red by everyone because there are things that we all wonder that this book answers.Autism is something that is to talked about enough because people don't have enough knowledge but reading this book can be a first step into understanding which is very important.
  

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