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Thursday, July 20, 2017

A First-Hand Account of Severe Autism


Naoki Hidishida has severe, nonverbal autism. Using an alphabet grid he was able to document his experiences of autism in his first book, The Reason I Jump, when he was 13 years old. Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8 is his further account of life as a young adult navigating the world with autism, and was translated by the novelist David Mitchell with KA Yoshida.

Read an excerpt  from Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8

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