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Ever the arty Autie

Autism; it ain’t all physical.

September29

autistic author Donna Williams running in a circle with a stick, aged 8 I was born into a very challenged and challenging household of unusual, eccentric, personalities.

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Breathing mercury and fed on rhetoric.

September28

Relevance by autistic artist Donna Williams On an Australian TV show, Lateline, last night, Tony Jones talked to US energy and environment consultant, Terry Tamminen. They discussed our embarrassingly sycophant Prime Minister‘s relationship to the US president, George Bush, regarding climate change.

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Marcel Marceau, meet Jackie Paper.

September27

Swing by autistic artist, Donna Williams My father used gestures and characterisations as far as I could remember. He had a repertoire of stories and he’d insist on telling them no matter how many times anyone had heard them.

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Object blindness, tinted lenses and very expensive mulch.

September2

peripheral vision by autistic artist, Donna Williams I often write of object blindness, context blindness and face blindness as part of delayed visual processing. This is not a problem with the eyes but with the part of the brain which processes what the eyes see. And I have tinted lenses which cut out certain light frequencies, reducing incoming visual information to allow my brain more time to process what I see. Or perhaps I should say, I DID have tinted lenses.

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