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The reason i jump5/22/2023 ![]() Novelist David Mitchell ( Cloud Atlas, Utopia Avenue) translated Higashida’s memoir together with his wife Keiko Mitchell (the couple has an autistic son), and he talks here about how the young author opened his eyes to the difficulties that autistic individuals face in trying to communicate with the outside world. ![]() The gap between what people perceive and the inner reality of autistic individuals is the main theme of The Reason I Jump, which is inspired by the titular 2007 book by Naoki Higashida (who is non-verbal autistic), written when he was 13. Meanwhile, at the bottom of the screen, Ben’s message is spelled out: “I think we can change the conversation around autism by being part of the conversation.” What the viewer sees and hears is Ben saying the letter “s” over and over. ![]() ![]() Late in filmmaker Jerry Rothwell’s powerful new autism documentary, twentysomething Ben uses a pointer with a letter board to communicate. ![]()
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