063 Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8 by Naoki Higashida

Book Club with Julia and Victoria

English - April 24, 2021 19:08 - 1 hour - 46.1 MB - ★★★★ - 18 ratings
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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 Jump by 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 Women by Caroline Criado Perez

Womanism and Alice Walker

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I am Greta film on Hulu