The following is copied from The Aspergian.
Editor’s Note: Anti-autistic Wikipedia editors have
long been vandalizing and rewriting the narrative around autism and
neurodiversity, with the most aggressive editing directed at non-speaking
autistics.
As a result, many of their pages
have been deleted. The Aspergian, in an act of purposeful protest, is
reposting the articles which have been removed. We have added links to
the author’s personal sites, and encourage all autistics and allies to read
more from non-speaking autistics. Click here for other articles deleted from Wikipedia or to
read about efforts to silence autistics.
Special thanks
to Ren Everett for taking the lead on this project,
to Malnormalulo for volunteering to help with non-speaking autistic advocacy,
and to Naoki Higashida for inspiration and working so hard to empower other
non-speaking autistics.
Naoki Higashida
Naoki Higashida (東田 直樹,Higashida Naoki, born August 12, 1992) is a Japanese
poet, novelist, and essayist. He is one of the most famous writers in
Japan. [4] Higashida was
diagnosed with autism at the age of 5. [6] He was not able
to make himself understood to people around him, and his behaviour was considered
erratic.
Despite his disability, Higashida
quickly took to learning Japanese characters. By attending a nearby cram
school, he was able to better express himself. Soon he began
writing Japanese characters with the help of adults who assisted by guiding his
hand. He was able to express some of his emotions. Higashida’s
mother noticed his power of expression and encouraged him to write poems and
short stories. At the age of 11, and again when he was 12, Higashid
first prize in the Grimm Fairy Tales Contest, a story-writing
competition.
Since 2004, Higashida has published
more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction. The Reason I Jump was published as a book in
2007 [8] when Higashida
was 13, and it features 58 often-asked questions about his autism and his
frank, sometimes startling, answers to them. The book was a hit in Japan,
and its discovery and subsequent translation into English by David Mitchell and his wife, Keiko Yoshida, [9] brought it to
audiences all around the world when it was translated into 30 further
languages. [10] The English
translation was published in 2013 and soon topped the best-seller list of
Amazon’s U.S. and British sites. [6]
Higashida’s second major translated
release, Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8 , was released on
July 11, 2017. Keiko Yoshida and David Mitchell provide the translation
for this book as well. [2] [2]
Works
- Jihei to iu boku no sekai, 自閉というぼくの世界,2004 (My World of Autism)
- kono hoshi ni sunde iru boku no nakama tachi e, この地球にすんでいる僕の仲間たちへ,2005 (To My Colleagues Living on This Planet)
- Yuuki wa oishii hazu, 勇気はおいしいはず,2005 (Courage Should Be Delicious)
- Minna no shiranai umi no oto, みんなの知らない海の音, 2005 (Sound of the Ocean That Everyone Does Not Know)
- Kirankiran akai mi, きらんきらん赤い実, 2005 (Blinking Red Fruit)
- Kikansha Kansuke, きかんしゃカンスケ, 2006 (Architect Kansuke)
- Kansuke to akai happa, カンスケとあかいはっぱ, 2006 (Kansuke and the Red Leaf)
- Jiheisho no boku ga tobihaneru riyu, 自閉症の僕が跳びはねる理由, 2007 (The Reason I Jump) Translated by KA Yoshida and David Mitchell, 2013
- Kansuke to katatsumuri kun, カンスケとかたつむりくん, 2007 (Kansuke and the Little Snail)
- Kansuke to Yukiko chan, カンスケとゆきこちゃん, 2007 (Kansuke and Yukiko)
- Jiheisho no boku ga nokosite kita kotoba tachi, 自閉症の僕が残してきた言葉たち, 2008 (The Words I Have Left of Autism)
- Hentekorin, ヘンテコリン, 2008 (Strange)
- Kansuke no kurisumasu, カンスケのクリスマス, 2008 (Kansuke’s Christmas)
- Zoku jiheisho no boku ga tobihaneru riyu, 続・自閉症の僕が跳びはねる理由, 2010 (The Reason I Jump, pt 2)
- Kaze ni naru, 風になる, 2012 (Become the Wind)
- Arugamama ni jiheisho desu, あるがままに自閉症です, 2013 (Autistic As It Is)
- Tobihaneru shiko, 飛びはねる思考, 2014 (Jumping Spirit)
- Arigato wa boku no mimi ni kodama suru, ありがとうは僕の耳にこだまする, 2014 (Thank You, Echoes in My Ears)
- Nanakorobi yaoki, 七転び八起き, (Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8) Translated by KA Yoshida and David Mitchell, 2017
References
External
links
- Naoki Higashida’s blog (old, no longer updated)
- Naoki Higashida’s blog (current)
- Naoki Higashida’s bio for the film Wretches & Jabberers
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