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The Reason I Jump
2020 · Film · documentary · 82 min
Directed by Jerry Rothwell
Based on the book by Naoki Higashida, filmmaker Jerry Rothwell examines the lives of five non-speaking, autistic youngsters.
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I once saw that Imogen Heap was captivated by the film The Reason I Jump, based on the book. The book is real chicken-soup-for-the-soul stuff about autism ostensibly by a Japanese kid with the condition. But here's the thing: it was entirely dictated by the technique of facilitated communication, a pseudoscientific and highly controversial technique wherein a person, a facilitator, guides and supports the hand of the autist pointing at a keyboard. The technique tends to produce words coming from the facilitator rather than the autist.
I was and am willing to give Ms. Heap the benefit of the doubt, as she may have been ignorant of the issues surrounding the book, film, and FC in general. But for a brief moment I had a flash feeling of "oh no, not this again", as there was a bit of controversy surrounding Sia and her weird little autism-themed film, Music.