BBC Radio 4 Book of the week this week was a fascinating insight into the autistic world:

‘The Reason I Jump’ By Naoki Higashida, translated by David Mitchell and K.A. Yoshida.

It was striking how recognisable this world was, in a less exaggerated form, for most ‘normal’ people. There seemed much evidence of the impairment of left-right hemisphere co-operation, with swings between the problem of total presentation (right-brain perception) and typical left-brain obsessions with regularities, symbols and unchanging models (representations).