The Reason I Jumped Analysis

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The Reason I Jumped - Naoki Higashida
I never had the chances to interact or witness autism’s life from their perspective. In which, signify the humbling and well developed message Naoki share about understanding and knowing how life is in the silence of an autistic person. Every answer corresponded with great explained story and examples. Such as:why do autism people jump their hands, like to be by themselves and why does time scare them. For example, I'm always scare of time passing me by and what the future will bring. In which, Naoki also shares that time scares autistic people because they are not aware of how quick or slow time is moving and make sense of time . The depth of his explanation was in harmony of his own experiences and expressed the words that many people with autism cannot express themselves. They are not “retarded”, but have eagerness to learn,even though autistic people appearance is not the status quo, yet they want to excel just like a normal person would. Overall the theme seem to share his stories of the expressions and difficulties as a beautiful human-being that live everyday in a different world where objects are more precise and time is scary and timeless.
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This whole book was mind blowing and I had many awe moments. Using rhetorical appeal like reasoning,emotional, and logical stories to channel reader's attention and understanding of a new unfamiliar world and then brings us back with his overall theme of life itself and essentials aspects of different lives in the same world. Naoki quoted, “ Living with special needs is so depressing and revelantless, I use to think it would be the best thing to live life as a normal person. But now even if someone developed a medicine to cure autism, I mind will choose to stay as I

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