![]() ![]() Reviews have been mixed, both celebrating the accomplishment of a mentally and emotionally challenged young author and expressing discomfort with the involvement of Higashida's communications facilitator (his mother) and English language translators (Keiko Yoshida and her husband David Mitchell). He was 13 years old when he wrote the book which was published in English in 2013. He was born in 1992 and diagnosed with autism when he was five. Naoki Higashida (東田 直樹 Higashida Naoki) is the Japanese author of The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism. The author, Naoki Higashida, was 13 years old at the time he wrote the memoir, and nonverbal. He was born in 1992 and diagnosed with autism when he was five. The newest is The Reason I Jump, popular in Japan since it was published in 2007. ![]()
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