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- 自閉症の僕が跳びはねる理由～会話のできない中学生がつづる内なる心～
- Naoki Higashida
- English
- 14 November 2018
- 9780812994872
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Read & download 自閉症の僕が跳びはねる理由～会話のできない中学生がつづる内なる心～ 自閉症の僕が跳びはねる理由～会話のできない中学生がつづる内なる心～ Read ´ 100 Ud Naoki answers even the most delicate uestions that people want to know uestions 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 it’s as if my feelings are going upward to the sky” With disarming honesty and a generous heart Naoki shares his uniue point of view on not only autism but life itself His insights into the mystery of words the wonders of laughter and the elusiveness of memory are so startling so strange and so powerful that you will never look at the world the same way again In his introduction bestselling novelist David Mitchell writes that Naoki’s words allowed him to feel for the first time as if his own autistic child was explaining what was happening in his mind “It is no exa Idiot savant author or has Dad had a hand in thisWhat to say about this book It feels like half of it is the genuine thoughts and explanations for autism by an unusually intelligent child who suffers from severe autism view spoilerI am a bit fed up with the memoirs of people who live uite independently in the world and write their stories of autism when it is uite obvious that they have Asperger s a much milder form Fed up even if I enjoy their books hide spoiler
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Read & download 自閉症の僕が跳びはねる理由～会話のできない中学生がつづる内なる心～ 自閉症の僕が跳びはねる理由～会話のできない中学生がつづる内なる心～ Read ´ 100 Ggeration to say that The Reason I Jump allowed me to round a corner in our relationship” This translation was a labor of love by David and his wife KA Yoshida so they’d be able to share that feeling with friends the wider autism community and beyond Naoki’s book in its beauty truthfulness and simplicity is a gift to be sharedPraise for The Reason I Jump“This is an intimate book one that brings readers right into an autistic mind” Chicago Tribune Editor’s Choice“Amazing times a million” Whoopi Goldberg People“ The Reason I Jump is a Rosetta stone This book takes about ninety minutes to read and it will stretch your vision of what it is to be human” Andrew Solomon The Times UK“Extraordinary moving and jeweled with epiphanies” The Boston Globe “Small but profound Higashida’s startling moving insights offer a rare look inside the autistic mind” Parade From the Hardcover editio 35 starsThis book was intriguing I m taking it with a grain of salt though because I ve been monitoring reviews about it First I ll talk about my thoughts though then address concerns I thought this book was wonderful The writing was lovely with a lot of insightful analogies and heartwarming metaphors I thought the uestion and answer format with fictional works inserted in between was very to the point and interesting Overall I learned a lot from this and it made me consider a perspective I knew very little about But that s also the troubling thing a lot of readers who have autism or mothers of autistic children are suspicious that this book was embellished during its conception and its translation The authenticity of it is uestioned which is something you really have to know going into this book Many of the positive reviews are from mothers or siblings or relatives of people with autism saying I finally know what s it s like for them but this could be misinformation Just something to consider if you want to pick this up If you are a person with autism who has read this book or are interested in reading it I d love to know how accurate or inaccurate it is
Read & download 自閉症の僕が跳びはねる理由～会話のできない中学生がつづる内なる心～Read & download 自閉症の僕が跳びはねる理由～会話のできない中学生がつづる内なる心～ 自閉症の僕が跳びはねる理由～会話のできない中学生がつづる内なる心～ Read ´ 100 “One of the most remarkable books I’ve ever read It’s truly moving eye opening incredibly vivid” Jon Stewart The Daily ShowNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYNPR • The Wall Street Journal • Bloomberg Business • BookishFINALIST FOR THE BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE FIRST BOOK AWARD • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERYou’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 lo This is a great book to be written by someone of any age and the fact that it is written by a 13 year old is amazing The book reads like a FA of uestions that anybody especially a parent of children with Autism or Asperger Syndrome have askedshouted at their children about why they keep doing certain things I bought this book after a particularly heated argument with my 8 year old this book did help at the very least it told me that many of the things I uestions eg Why do you keep doing the same thing after I have told you a million times not to Yes all kids do this but is Autistic and AS children seem to take it to another level In between uestions we are threated to a couple of short stories written by Naoki these are great and remember the boy was only 13 when he wrote this book It shows that creative writing is definitely Naoki s outlet and wrenches at my heart that such a creative and intelligent boy has so much problem communicating verbally or in personTwo thing to remember about this book Everyone with Autism or AS is different but they do share many traits so as insightful as Naoki s views are for himself might now apply to all childrenpeople However it does offer a first hand perspective which is otherwise unheard of the other is the messagetheme that Naoki is trying to get across DON T GIVE UP ON US Yes they might keep doing the same thing when they are told not to but you still have to keep telling them not to till maybe on the ten million and one time it might get through to the child then they know it for life As Naoki points out they might not look like it but they are learning slowly but surely they are This book is a great insight into a great and creative mind that has been trapped inside a body with fewer outlets then are available to the rest of us however with patience and understand many other children could be allowed to find their own outlet and unleash their ideas on the world