The reason I jump
By: Naoki Higashida. Published in Japan in February 28,2007. It was translated and came out in 2013. The publisher is Random house, in New York.
Naoki Higashida was diagnosed with autism at a early age. He had a struggle with people understanding the way he is and the reasons he would act a certain way. In this book he expresses and explains how he feels about certain things, also his feelings about certain things. He gives examples of actions he would do, and then say that people look at him as he is not normal. Then he answers how his body and way of thinking works. He also includes that the word “normal” plenty of times as the meaning of perfection. The way everyone would want him to act (normal). As his conclusion he
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He realized that things are just going to be like that, and he learned how to work with his mind. The only conclusion he reached was that he is happy with himself and that is what should be more important, but it is amazing to see that he has a lot in his mind. He is really smart and can work his mind, but in a different way. In this case for his book is answering questions that are being asked to people with autism. In most part he speaks more for himself, but also speaks in general for all the people that have autism. We includes how people should understand that they show their feelings differently and see things differently. On example he gives about the way of doing things is like, when a person talks to him he does not make eye contact but he sees their voice. He is very straight up in explaining things, and answering questions. The book is just based on questions they asked him and then his answer. It is not in any type of order, perhaps you can say it is in the order they asked him questions. It is very reliable, because in this world there is a lot of people with autism that are in this situation and cannot express themselves as he