• When I was small, I didn't even know that I was a kid with special needs. How did I find out? By other people telling me that I was different from everyone else, and that this was a problem.

    Naoki Higashida: When I was small, I didn't even know that I was a kid
with special needs.  How did I find out? By other people telling me that I was
different from everyone else, and that this was a problem.
    Naoki Higashida (2013). “The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism: one boy's voice from the silence of autism”, p.2, Hachette UK