![]() ![]() When director Jerry Rothwell met with Naoki to discuss making the film, Naoki expressed that, although he was supportive of the project, he had no interest in appearing or opening his family up to that kind of intrusion. Like the book on which it is based, and which it quotes throughout, the film is a seminal work that could, and should, have an enormous impact on the way that our society understands autistic people – particularly those of us who are nonspeaking. ![]() ![]() With it he aimed to give an insight into how he perceived and experienced the world, and to open the lid on the fact that nonspeaking people have an experience and a voice that is worth listening to.įourteen years later, the documentary film of the same name uses the book as a framework on which to tell the story of living as a nonspeaking autistic person – with all of the accompanying issues, distress and, most importantly, joy, that comes with experiencing the world differently and more acutely than the people around you. At the age of thirteen, Naoki Higashida, a nonspeaking autistic child, used letterboards, or ‘a cardboard keyboard’, to write his autobiographical book, The Reason I Jump. ![]()
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