British novelist David Mitchell believes Naoki Higashida's 2012 book, The Reason I Jump, written when he was 13, has "influenced the narrative of autism at least as much as any other book I know." He ...

Autistic performers share their own stories in an outdoor production which turns Naoki Higashida’s remarkable book into a journey through a labyrinth The theatre can be a difficult place for people ...

Nearly everyone knows someone whose family has been affected by autism. That said, there is no one demonstrative example of an individual with the disorder. People can exhibit a wide array of symptoms ...

Every now and then, there comes news brave and uplifting enough to renew our faith in the invincibility of the human spirit. But the story of Naoki Higashida of Japan, detected with autism when he was ...

A European minister's comments in 2009 about the "autistic" nature of British foreign policy were not merely politically naive (or perhaps merely dishonest), they reflected a common misconception. The ...

The author of ’Cloud Atlas’ and ’The Bone Clocks’ credits the autistic Higashida with helping him understand his own boy Higashida wrote his first book, The Reason I Jump, in 2005, when he was 13, by ...

Naoki Higashida’s lyrical and heartfelt account of his condition is a gift to anyone involved with the same challenges Naoki Higashida is a 24-year-old man with severe, largely non-verbal autism.

Nearly everyone knows someone whose family has been impacted in some way by autism. That said, there is no one demonstrative example of an individual with the disorder, as people can exhibit a wide ...

The author of the bestselling The Reason I Jump movingly addresses a range of topics from the perspective of an outsider Naoki Higashida is, by any measure, a phenomenally successful author. His first ...

Desperate for insight into their son’s mind - beyond the slew of parent memoirs, glib manuals or watching Rain Man - Mitchell and his wife KA Yoshida discovered this extraordinary book. Part memoir ...