Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Autism

Naoki Higashida
(Adult Nonfiction - 616.8588 Hig)

Naoki Higashida wrote The Reason I Jump as a 13-year-old boy. Now, he shares his thoughts and experiences as a 24-year old young man with severe autism. In short, powerful chapters, he explores education, identity, family, society and personal growth. He also allows readers to experience profound moments we take for granted, like the thought-steps necessary for him to register that it's raining outside. Introduced by award-winning author David Mitchell (co-translator with his wife, KA Yoshida), this book is part memoir, part critique of a world that sees disabilities ahead of disabled people. It is a self-portrait-in-progress of a young man who happens to have autism, and who wants to help us understand it better


Anxiety and Mental Health

  • Stupid Fast


  • The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens: CBT Skills to Overcome Fear, Worry, & Panic


  • When I Cast Your Shadow


  • My Heart and Other Black Holes


  • History is All You Left Me


  • Finding Audrey


  • Standard Deviation


  • Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Autism


  • Darius the Great is Not Okay


  • All the Bright Places


  • It’s Kind of a Funny Story


  • Yoga for your mind and body: a teenage practice for a healthy, balanced life


  • All That I Can Fix


  • When We Collided


  • Goodbye Days


  • The Astonishing Color of After


  • Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets


  • 50 things you can do today to manage anxiety


  • The Memory of Light


  • Stay: A History of Suicide and Philosophies Against It


  • Turtles All the Way Down


  • Challenger Deep


  • 8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness: Practical Strategies for Emotional Health and Well-being


  • This Song Will Save Your Life


  • That's Not What Happened


  • A Quiet Kind of Thunder


  • Anxiety: a very short introduction


  • Fear and Anxiety


  • Symptoms of Being Human


  • Dreaming of Antigone


  • Sorry to Disrupt the Peace