Author David Mitchell, 52, was born in Southport, grew up in Malvern and now lives near Cork in Ireland. Mitchell translated the autism memoir The Reason I Jump from Japanese to English with his wife, Keiko Yoshida. No baby talk, don’t adjust your vocabulary, don’t treat an autistic person any differently to a neurotypical person. It taught us how to interact with non-verbal autistic kids, but what about the people working with our son? The rest of the world still thinks autistic people don’t do emotions, like Data from Star Trek.

Source: The Guardian June 06, 2021 08:26 UTC