The author of "Cloud Atlas", David Mitchell remembers the day he read the memoir of a 13-year-old boy with autism -- hailing it a "revelatory godsend" that offered a window on the life of his autistic son. Mitchell said Naoki Higashida was "one of the most helpful and practical writers on the subject of autism in the world." "Pre-Naoki, I'm ashamed to say that I used to regard and treat my son as a kind of defective robot," Mitchell told AFP. "Post-Naoki, ...
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