A review by niuniuyz
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

4.5

"I think that people with autism are  born outside the regime of civilization... I think that as a result of all the killings in the world and the selfish planet-wrecking that humanity has committed, a deep sense of crisis exists" it's so telling and so accurate how he calls civilization a regime, despite this book originally intending to teach people how to treat autistic kids, this book outlines how flawed and exclusionary capitalist society is especially in our views of time management and mental illness. Despite not having autism I can relate to this book and the feeiling of helplessness, infantilization, self hatred and in the last quote, climate depression that it describes.