The Reason I Jump
The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism (Japanese: 自閉症の僕が跳びはねる理由~会話のできない中学生がつづる内なる心~, Hepburn: Jiheishō no Boku ga Tobihaneru Riyū ~Kaiwa no Dekinai Chūgakusei ga Tsuzuru Uchinaru Kokoro~) is an autobiography by Naoki Higashida, a largely nonspeaking autistic person from Japan. It was first published in Japan in 2007.