Comments on: Which kind of autism? : Interviewing Lewis aged 11. http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2007/05/22/interviewing-lewis/ Ever the arty Autie Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:52:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Ivan and Athena http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2007/05/22/interviewing-lewis/#comment-8188 Ivan and Athena Thu, 24 May 2007 18:45:02 +0000 http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2007/05/22/interviewing-lewis/#comment-8188 Awesome interview. Lewis seems really cool......... He took us back to when we were younger...............in a way I can only visualise............if my mind were a digital camera I could click one of my temples and a picture of what came to mind reading the interview......would come out. Then perhaps I could describe it here........or anywhere................ Athena says hi. and also to me: "Ivan get foodoop and drinkoo!" and you get two "word-hugs" hug hug Athena is the huggy one........I just wish my cat would scratch my head for me. Ciao! Awesome interview. Lewis seems really cool………

He took us back to when we were younger……………in a way I can only visualise…………if my mind were a digital camera I could click one of my temples and a picture of what came to mind reading the interview……would come out. Then perhaps I could describe it here……..or anywhere…………….

Athena says hi.
and also to me: “Ivan get foodoop and drinkoo!”

and you get two “word-hugs”

hug
hug
Athena is the huggy one……..I just wish my cat would scratch my head for me.

Ciao!

]]> By: donna http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2007/05/22/interviewing-lewis/#comment-8175 donna Wed, 23 May 2007 22:41:50 +0000 http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2007/05/22/interviewing-lewis/#comment-8175 What you said is fab. I have a painting called 'Belonging' on my online gallery at www.donnawilliams.net . It has the words 'I am always myself in the becoming of it'. I also have this on a Tshirt and badge at my online store of Donnaisms. When one can't experience self except through the product of doing, then there is little rigid idea of self. I have a feel for who I am, but I'm always discovering new parts of me in this very fluid dance with beingness. That's reflected in the diversity of my art but soooooo hard to explain in words. Some people have a strong mental idea of who they are and always think first then do. If I'm thinking, then its largely preconscious because it becomes conscious as a result of the doing. Many of us are taught we can't DO until we prove we have a conscious IDEA... ie, something to apply through DOING. But I think through my body, not in my mind. If my body isn't doing anything, my mind thinks nobody is home. One day such diversities will be not only curiosities, not merely studied and clinically understood, but truly catered to as equal ways of learning and exploring. One day the world will not need proof of knowing before the freedom to learn through doing. :-) Donna Williams *) www.donnawilliams.net What you said is fab.

I have a painting called ‘Belonging’ on my online gallery at http://www.donnawilliams.net . It has the words ‘I am always myself in the becoming of it’. I also have this on a Tshirt and badge at my online store of Donnaisms.

When one can’t experience self except through the product of doing, then there is little rigid idea of self. I have a feel for who I am, but I’m always discovering new parts of me in this very fluid dance with beingness. That’s reflected in the diversity of my art but soooooo hard to explain in words.

Some people have a strong mental idea of who they are and always think first then do. If I’m thinking, then its largely preconscious because it becomes conscious as a result of the doing.

Many of us are taught we can’t DO until we prove we have a conscious IDEA… ie, something to apply through DOING. But I think through my body, not in my mind. If my body isn’t doing anything, my mind thinks nobody is home.

One day such diversities will be not only curiosities, not merely studied and clinically understood, but truly catered to as equal ways of learning and exploring. One day the world will not need proof of knowing before the freedom to learn through doing.

:-) Donna Williams *)
http://www.donnawilliams.net

]]> By: Shirley Stone http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2007/05/22/interviewing-lewis/#comment-8169 Shirley Stone Wed, 23 May 2007 15:54:21 +0000 http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2007/05/22/interviewing-lewis/#comment-8169 Thanks so much for publishing this interview. It shows an amazing self-understanding. I have lived a long life and still constantly seek my own understanding of who I am and how I function. Part of that I'm sure is that experience, time, and deepening self-knowledge keeps me fluid and always "becoming". Awareness gives power to act in a way you respect and thus shape who you are. I am particularly grateful to witness your eloquent expression of your Artism-Autism. I have a grandson who has been categorized as NLD which is part of the spectrum and his father (my son) and I have some related characteristics. Noah, my grandson, has been fortunate to have intuitive, supportive parents and excellent school experiences at a creative arts school. Reading your interview has demonstrated the importance of helping Noah understanding his own uniqueness so that he can appreciate his special value and develop the abilit to bridge that understanding to the rest of his world. Thanks again. Thanks so much for publishing this interview. It shows an amazing self-understanding. I have lived a long life and still constantly seek my own understanding of who I am and how I function. Part of that I’m sure is that experience, time, and deepening self-knowledge keeps me fluid and always “becoming”. Awareness gives power to act in a way you respect and thus shape who you are.

I am particularly grateful to witness your eloquent expression of your Artism-Autism. I have a grandson who has been categorized as NLD which is part of the spectrum and his father (my son) and I have some related characteristics. Noah, my grandson, has been fortunate to have intuitive, supportive parents and excellent school experiences at a creative arts school. Reading your interview has demonstrated the importance of helping Noah understanding his own uniqueness so that he can appreciate his special value and develop the abilit to bridge that understanding to the rest of his world.

Thanks again.

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