Donna Williams’ Blog

Ever the arty Autie

Biomedical approach to autism hits the mainstream with Jenny Mc Carthy

October 28th, 2007 at 9:55pm |

My UK speaker’s agent and good friend was relishing a book by Jenny Mc Carthy called Louder Than Words and send me some clips of the author from an interview on Larry King Live. The DAN (Defeat Autism Now) forum has been showing ‘recovered’ children with autism for some years now, demonstrating their […]

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What is autism? Beyond the symptoms and stereotypes.

October 7th, 2007 at 1:27am |

My definition of autism has evolved through my experience as an autism consultant with hundreds of children since 1997 together with my own experience as a person assessed as a psychotic infant in 1965 at age 2 and later diagnosed with autism.

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