自閉というぼくの世界

by Naoki Higashida, Reiko Imura (Illustrator)

　自閉傾向と診断された「なおき」が、小学３年生の時に書き上げた作文を、絵本にしました。
　「なおき」が、自閉という障がいで、どんなに困っているか、どんな思いでいるのか等ひしひしと伝わってくる絵本です。
　「自閉」児に関わるすべての方々や保護者の方々にお勧めします。
　「自閉」という障がいを持つ友達のいる小・中学生にもお勧めします。

Kindle Edition

First published December 21, 2014

About the author

Naoki Higashida (東田 直樹 Higashida Naoki) is the Japanese author of The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism. He was born in 1992 and diagnosed with autism when he was five. He was 13 years old when he wrote the book which was published in English in 2013. Reviews have been mixed, both celebrating the accomplishment of a mentally and emotionally challenged young author and expressing discomfort with the involvement of Higashida's communications facilitator (his mother) and English language translators (Keiko Yoshida and her husband David Mitchell).

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 4 out of 5]

Look, 自閉というぼくの世界 is loud, silly, and a little smarter than it looks. Naoki Higashida drops a washed-up magician, a runaway llama, and a very serious insurance adjuster into one chaotic road trip, and the scene where they try to talk their way out of a county fair security check made me spit out my drink. The humor wears thin in the last stretch. For readers who want a goofy, high-energy escape. Pass if you roll your eyes at absurdity.