Movie and Event Review: The Reason I Jump and event at the Loft in Tucson, Arizona

     On April 30 there was a viewing of the documentary The Reason Why I Jump at the Loft Cinema. The Reason Why I Jump is an excellent film that described the world of the person with nonverbal autism. The movie review website Rotten Tomatoes gives The Reason Why I Jump 97% and it has one several awards where it one the Audience Award for World Cinema-Documentary at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Best Documentary at the 2020 Denver Film Festival, the Best Foreign Film as the Rome Film Festival among others film festivals, and a New York Times Best Seller

    The Reason Why I Jump is based on the autobiography by a thirteen year old Japanese boy Naoki Higashida, and translated into English by Keiko Yoshido and her husband David Mitchell being published in English by Random House.

    The Book has not been without controversy though. Organizations, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association have espoused the method of communication used to facilitate communication is pseudoscience. Doctor and parent of a child with autism also claim the communication methods used to write the book are a myth.

    Autism self-advocates Dani Bowman and John Elder Robinson were doing a panel at the Loft Cinema. What seems odd about this panel is the author, translator, nor any of the people with autism will be involved in this panel.

        Despite the controversy and oddness surrounding The Reason Why I Jump, regardless of who the author was of the book, the book and documentary feature do a great job at describing the element of nonverbal autism