Fall down 7 times get up 8
Subtitle: a young man's voice from the silence of autism
By: Naoki Higashida ; translated by KA Yoshida and David Mitchell
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780812997392
Subjects: Autistic people; Health; Psychology; Biography; Autism
Other titles: Fall down seven times get up eight
Description: "The author of the bestselling phenomenon The Reason I Jump returns with a unique memoir about life as a young adult with severe autism. With an introduction by David Mitchell, who translated this book with his wife, KA Yoshida, this extraordinary new work explores education, identity, family, society, and personal growth, opening a window into the mind of its nonverbal author and providing remarkable insights into autism in general"--

"Naoki Higashida wrote The Reason I Jump as a 13-year-old boy. Now, he shares his thoughts and experiences as a 24-year old young man with severe autism. In short, powerful chapters, he explores education, identity, family, society and personal growth. He also allows readers to experience profound moments we take for granted, like the thought-steps necessary for him to register that it's raining outside. Introduced by award-winning author David Mitchell (co-translator with his wife, KA Yoshida), this book is part memoir, part critique of a world that sees disabilities ahead of disabled people. It is a self-portrait-in-progress of a young man who happens to have autism, and who wants to help us understand it better"--
Notes: Translated from the Japanese.