![]() ![]() ![]() In India, Amrit pours her frustrations at being unable to verbally communicate with others into vibrant paintings so good that they earn her a solo-gallery show in the UK, Joss struggles to differentiate between the past and the present, the events of ten years ago feeling as raw and current as contemporary emotions in Virginia are besties Ben and Emma, who communicate through an alphabet board which gives them time to be more articulate and, finally, we meet Jestina in Sierra Leone, a superstitious country where ASD is often branded as demonic - many children diagnosed with it are left in the bush, such is the stigma of raising a ‘disabled’ child. ![]() Rothwell’s solution to filming Higashida’s seemingly unfilmable book is to channel the author’s thoughts and feelings through the real experiences of young adults living with autism. Rather than attempt a literal translation, documentarian Jerry Rothwell interprets and riffs on Higashida’s writing, amplifying the ideas in a way that’s at once impressionistic yet lucid. Naoki Higashida’s slender tome, written when he was just 13, is a collection of 58 questions and answers that convey what it feels like to be autistic. ISBN-13: 9780812994865 Summary You’ve never read a book like The Reason I Jump. 2013, David Mitchell, KA Yoshida) Random House 176 pp. The Reason I Jump is an object lesson in turning a book based on a literary conceit into riveting cinema. The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism Naoki Higashida, 2007 (Eng. ![]()
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