Donna Williams’ Blog

Ever the arty Autie

Autistic artists unite globally in charity auction.

An interview with the organiser of this major event.

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An interview with autistic FC pioneer

Richard Attfield is a fellow autistic artist and one of the authors featured in Autism and The Myth of The Person Alone edited by Doug Biklen. He was one of the first people with autism in the UK to

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From Autism to Artism

A slideshow by Donna Williams.

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Types of Autism; What if its more complex than mercury?

Exposure to heavy metals is part of modern life. These heavy metals are in many common household products as well as the petrochemicals in our air and waterways. If toxic levels of heavy metals, including mercury, are being found in many children with autism and blamed for their autism, what if […]

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Flushing perfume down the toilet

How many of us wish to reduce toxins in the food chain, save wildlife, reduce the pollution of our waterways? Yes many of those same people flush perfume and bleach down their sinks, baths, showers and toilets every day. Among the average ten toxins contained in perfume almost all synthetic perfumes contain […]

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Cigarette butts kill millions of animals, fish and birds

A recent article in The Age, shocked me with its findings. 240 million cigarette butts a year are washed down storm water drains and end up in Melbourne’s water ways and finally Port Phillip Bay. They are part of the 7.2 billion cigarette butts tossed in Australia each year, part of an estimated […]

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Ethical gift ideas

Someone’s birthday? Christmas, Valentines Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day or other festivity? Thinking of spending your hard earned cash on something that may only clutter, support unethical corporates, support exploitative establishments and hideous regimes, come with environmental toxins and useless packaging which taxed the earth’s resources or contributed to global warming? […]

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Ethical investment opportunities

We often feel that as one person there is little we can do to help equalise the world, reduce the suffering and hardship of the poorest and most disempowered people in the 3rd world or do anything to stop wars or combat global warming.

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Put down your Second Life avatars and check out live music

INTERVIEW WITH AWARD WINNING SINGER SONGWRITER JANETTE GERI

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Angry young men on the spectrum: interview with Aspie youth

Tom has an interest in killers and the macabre, a fascination with famous people and a calling toward music and digital art. He’s also a young man with Asperger’s and a fascinating one at that. Here’s our interview…

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