The Reason I Jump

作者简介：东田直树（Naoki Higashida），1992年出生于日本千叶县，5岁时被诊断出有重度自闭症。他曾获得21世纪未来博览会未来之梦大奖，以及第四、五届格林童话奖中小学年级的大奖，从此获奖无数。日本NHK、朝日新闻、日本电视台、富士电视台、东京电台、东京新闻、每日新闻等媒体都对其进行过广泛的报导。东田直树著有多部著作，现在仍持续写作，不断努力为自闭症群体发声。绘者简介：张汉，南京人，大家都称他“大宝”，3岁被诊断为自闭症，5岁后学习绘画，并坚持至今。十几年的康复训练和父母耐心的教导，让大宝发生了翻天覆地的变化。目前大宝的画作已在山东、浙江、重庆等十多个地区展出。2015年12月曾在上海合作组织招待年会上与郎朗同台献艺。

出版者:Random House

作者:Naoki Higashida

页数:176

译者:David Mitchell

出版时间:2013-8-27

价格:USD 22.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780812994865

图书标签:自闭症心理学日本autismPsychologyDavidMitchell随笔英文原版

You’ve never read a book like The Reason I Jump . Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within.

Using an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable to speak out loud, Naoki answers even the most delicate questions that people want to know. Questions such as: “Why do people with autism talk so loudly and weirdly?” “Why do you line up your toy cars and blocks?” “Why don’t you make eye contact when you’re talking?” and “What’s the reason you jump?” (Naoki’s answer: “When I’m jumping, it’s as if my feelings are going upward to the sky.”) With disarming honesty and a generous heart, Naoki shares his unique point of view on not only autism but life itself. His insights—into the mystery of words, the wonders of laughter, and the elusiveness of memory—are so startling, so strange, and so powerful that you will never look at the world the same way again.

In his introduction, bestselling novelist David Mitchell writes that Naoki’s words allowed him to feel, for the first time, as if his own autistic child was explaining what was happening in his mind. “It is no exaggeration to say that The Reason I Jump allowed me to round a corner in our relationship.” This translation was a labor of love by David and his wife, KA Yoshida, so they’d be able to share that feeling with friends, the wider autism community, and beyond. Naoki’s book, in its beauty, truthfulness, and simplicity, is a gift to be shared.

Advance praise for The Reason I Jump

“ The Reason I Jump is awise, beautiful, intimate and courageous explanation of autism as it is lived every day by one remarkable boy. Naoki Higashida takes us ‘behind the mirror’—his testimony should be read by parents, teachers, siblings, friends, and anybody who knows and loves an autistic person. I only wish I’d had this book to defend myself when I was Naoki’s age.” —Tim Page, author of Parallel Play and professor of journalism and music at the University of Southern California

读后感

近些天多个项目同时压身，带着公司的几个小朋友几乎是连轴转地加着班。加班加久了，心态不免就有些崩，看各种人事物都觉得有点儿不顺眼。之前压在手上的那几本相对专业的书籍自然也就读不下去了。 但书总是要读的，于是在书库里挑了本装帧设计看起来最“治愈”的书，希望借此...  

For people with autism, the harder part of life is to be understood by others rather than themselves, which is quite contrary to people that are thought to be normal.  

很早之前就想过，为什么我不得自闭症呢？在心情极度压抑，一度想逃离这个世界的时候，消极无力感可以把自己吞并，这时候就会想，如果我是自闭儿，也许活着就没有这么难受了。但这只是我在看这本书之前的想法，合上书的那一刻，一切都不同了。一本书改变了我对自闭症这一群体所...  

For people with autism, the harder part of life is to be understood by others rather than themselves, which is quite contrary to people that are thought to be normal.  

用户评价

ehh...

作为一本让你直观了解到自闭症者内心到底是怎么感觉的实在是很了不起，虽然更多你只能感受到他们是多么的无法表达与控制。David Mitchell的前言把我乱感动了一番TAT里面那个龟兔赛跑的故事好悲伤。这几年来看的最容易读下去的一本书。

試著去了解自閉症者 他們與我們一樣敏感 只是苦於表達障礙 尊重他們

更新：看了NHK纪录片，看到作者如何交流，发现他非常聪明。看到大脑检查显示是他的弓状束（连接语言理解区域和表达区域的神经集）出现异常导致不能正常说话，而他右脑承担意图理解能力的区域比常人要大，因有优于常人的表现力。如此看来，他能写出这本书毫无意外。我之前的质疑是狭隘、不客观的。感谢作者让更多人了解自闭儿的内心世界，重度自闭能有如此写作水平简直是奇迹。 原评论：作为长期接触自闭症小朋友的志愿者，本意是想通过此书了解这些孩子的内心想法。尽管非常努力希望能客观公正，依然很难相信一位有学习障碍、社交障碍、无语言沟通能力、年仅十三岁的小朋友如何对生活、对人生、对世界有如此深刻的见解以致曾读万卷书行万里路识万般人的成年人自愧不如？很赞同亚马逊一评论，这本书更像是出自一有自闭症孩子的中年家长之手

书很薄一小时读完，在国外爆红后引发争议，有人认为一个13岁孩子不应该能够讲清楚自闭症这件事。全书弥漫着一种“我们自闭得很正常，请不要放弃我们，不要放弃我们，不要放弃我们”的恳求的基调。也许是日本孩子的缘故，写出来的感觉是“我怕给你们添麻烦，我知道我在给大家添麻烦，但不要放弃我“