![]() ![]() Instead we have an adorable young actor with autism who runs and squints and explores as a narrator reads passages from the book. The protagonist, about whom there remains much controversy, was conspicuously missing from the film. So I was relieved to learn of this new documentary because finally, I thought, we would have the chance to see the author typing or letterboarding his poetic words.īut no. ![]() Autism experts also strongly questioned the validity of the authorship (see Fein and Kamio 2014). I say ostensibly because at the time it was published in English I searched for evidence that the book was indeed written by the autistic teen, but came up empty. ![]() ![]() The new film The Reason I Jump, due for release on January 8, is a multifaceted adaptation of a best-selling book ostensibly written by Naoki Higashida, a 13 year-old Japanese boy with autism. ![]()
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