david mitchell

intro’d to David via intro to Naoki..and the reason i jump.. then found this:

2 min – either book is a fake.. or we are constantly underestimating/underplaying potential of people with autism..

i’ve been constantly underestimating what my own son is thinking.. because he can’t communicate..

we do that with everyone.. no..?

begs a nother way to communicate/live.. perhaps led by those w higher degree of autism – higashida autism law et al

ie: hlb via 2 convos that io dance.. as the day..[aka: not part\ial.. for (blank)’s sake…].. a nother way

7 min – where autism stops and personality starts.. who knows..

ipad is best heaven sent

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Have obsessively listened to different versions of #LeonardCohen #ThePartisan since finishing #UtopiaAvenue by @david_mitchell https://t.co/CrdsVctqsj
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/Darcy1968/status/1289141205188583424

[https://www.amazon.com/Utopia-Avenue-Novel-David-Mitchell/dp/0812997433]

“In 2020, there is something utopian about the idea of people gathering together to make and record and play music, to create a scenius together. We’ll get back to the garden someday.”—Los Angeles Times

“For his first novel in five years, the author explores the universal language of music. . . . It’s Daisy Jones & the Six on acid.”—Entertainment Weekly

“Mitchell unspools at least a dozen original song lyrics and descriptions of performances that are just as fiery and infectious as his narratives. This is Mitchell at his best.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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doc of the reason i jump:

The Reason I Jump’ Is a Total Immersion in What It’s Like Living with Autism https://t.co/jbgz1kC5Az via @indiewire
@david_mitchell @jerry_rothwell
#Documentary #Film #Representation #AuthenticRepresentation #International #Autism #Inclusion #TheResourceKey #Community
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/JourdanSaunders/status/1329439670657294346

the reason i jump (film)

higashida autism law et al

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find/follow David:

ireland

David Stephen Mitchell (born 12 January 1969) is an English novelist. He has written seven novels, two of which, number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004), were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

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After another stint in Japan, Mitchell currently lives with his wife, Keiko Yoshida, and their two children in Ardfield, Clonakilty in County Cork, Ireland. In an essay for Random House, Mitchell wrote: “I knew I wanted to be a writer since I was a kid, but until I came to Japan to live in 1994 I was too easily distracted to do much about it. I would probably have become a writer wherever I lived, but would I have become the same writer if I’d spent the last six years in London, or Cape Town, or Moose Jaw, on an oil rig or in the circus? This is my answer to myself.”

Mitchell has the speech disorder of stammering and considers the film The King’s Speech (2010) to be one of the most accurate portrayals of what it’s like to be a stammerer: “I’d probably still be avoiding the subject today had I not outed myself by writing a semi-autobiographical novel, Black Swan Green, narrated by a stammering 13 year old.” Mitchell is also a patron of the British Stammering Association.

Mitchell’s son has Autism, and in 2013 he and his wife Keiko Yoshida translated a book written by Naoki Higashida, a 13-year-old Japanese boy with autism, titled The Reason I Jump: One Boy’s Voice from the Silence of Autism.

In 2017, Mitchell and his wife translated the follow-up book by Higashida, Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man’s Voice from the Silence of Autism.

(some) Researchers are doubtful that he (higashida) wrote the book himself, with psychologist Jens Hellman claiming that Higashida’s accounts “resemble what I would deem very close to an autistic child’s parents’ dream”.