Naoki Higashida brought the tea with his most recent book in translation Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8 about his experience as a non-verbal autistic young adult, and an extremely successful writer and speaker. Julia and Victoria share some of their favorite insights from his work on everything from ableism in education to the importance of allowing disabled people to express their full humanity in a world that prefers to pretend they do not exist.

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Mentioned in the Episode:

The Reason I Jumpby Naoki Higashida, Book Club episode 046

Haruki Murakami

Naoki Higashida’s Japanese blog

Mindset by Carol S Dweck PhD

Pandemic Parenting webinar about building resiliency in children

Dr Bruce Perry’s work on trauma and resilience

Invisible Womenby Caroline Criado Perez

Womanism and Alice Walker

Recommendations:

I am Gretafilm on Hulu

Crip Camp film on Netflix

Join the Book Club With JV ‘Tism Tier for more of Julia’s autism articles

Neurotribesby Steve Silberman

Morgan Harper Nichols

Currently Obsessed:

DPR Ian album Moodswings In This Order

Lucy (band) and their new song “Flowering”

Half-Alive song “Rest” ft. Samm Henshaw

Recipe Clubpodcast

Samin Nosrat’s tahdig recipe

My Persian Kitchen recipe blog