Book Club with Julia and 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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Mentioned in the Episode:
The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida, Book Club episode 046
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
Recommendations:
I am Greta film on Hulu
Crip Camp film on Netflix
Join the Book Club With JV ‘Tism Tier for more of Julia’s autism articles
Neurotribes by Steve Silberman
Currently Obsessed:
DPR Ian album Moodswings In This Order
Lucy (band) and their new song “Flowering”
Half-Alive song “Rest” ft. Samm Henshaw
Recipe Club podcast
Samin Nosrat’s tahdig recipe
My Persian Kitchen recipe blog