non-fiction, autism, poetry Book Club with Julia & Victoria non-fiction, autism, poetry Book Club with Julia & Victoria

063 Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8 by Naoki Higashida

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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