Thoughts

The Reason I Jump

I just found out about this amazing person who's written a book called "The Reason I Jump".

It was written by a 13 year old boy named Naoki Higashida whom is heavily autistic.
His mother found that he was interested in letters since a very young age and amazingly they have found a way for him to communicate his thoughts by using a keyboard.
He is very intelligent and his thoughts are very insightful and his writings very poetic.
Apparently a famous Scottish writer came across his book and because this writer lived in Japan for a few years he was able to read the book in Japanese. The book has since been translated into several languages and has become a bestseller all over the world. It seems that he is revolutionizing the understanding of autism.

He also writes a blog which sadly seems to be only in Japanese. It's very inspiring and gives me food to thought daily! Although sadly I saw a comment which was aimed at him which was clearly quite mean... It's really sad to think that some people really can't accept people's differences.

Anyway, I think the book is an inspiration to us all. The way that he looks at the world,the ways that he reacts to them,seem only like an exaggerated version of what we all experience.