written from the thirteen-year-old perspective of a non verbal autistic boy, The Reason I Jump is a short memoir about Higashida’s experiences. It does homogenize the autistic experience without recognizing the complex diversity of the condition (which is bad as it reinforces negative stereotyping) and there is a lot of emphasis on identifying as person with autism rather than autistic person but it does provide insight into the mind of a non verbal autistic person who are rarely ever given the tools they need to be able to communicate. This memoir shows that for many non-verbal autistic people, there is a lot they want to communicate and they do enjoy human interaction but because they can’t verbally say this many people are quick to assume otherwise.