Donna Williams’ Blog

Ever the arty Autie

AWARES online autism conference 2007

Welcome to an interview with Adam Feinstein, founder of the AWARES online autism conference now in it’s 3rd year.

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High functioning versus low functioning autism

High versus Low Functioning depends on the nature of the ‘autism fruit salad‘ underpinning the diagnosis with autism.
These ‘autism fruit salads’ can be standard or exotic, simple or complex, small or large quantities or pieces, separated contents or very mixed up.

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Agnosia, sensory perception and autism

In 1996 my first text book, Autism; An Inside Out Approach was published, in which I discussed strategies for meaning deafness, meaning blindness, lack of body connectedness and lacking simultaneous processing of a sense of self and other. To most people, that may sound like something from a Sci Fi novel, but […]

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What makes YOU autistic?

I recently heard from a blind woman on the autism spectrum who was looking forward to meeting me. I found her perspective on her ASD interesting so thought to share how our dialogue went. Here it is….

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