I got this a question about the nature of ‘Autism Spectrum Disorder’. I was asked
In your opinion is ASD a learning disability, a neurological
condition or a mental health issue…or something entirely unique perhaps?
Here was my answer….
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Someone wrote to me about the differences between Exposure Anxiety (EA, as written about in the book, Exposure Anxiety; The Invisible Cage ) and Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA). Here are my reflections on those differences:
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Welcome to a new feature: recipe of the month.
Read the rest of Recipe of the month (June): Home made snack bars.
I am seriously telling people in drought stricken suburbs, cities and towns to collect any large rubbish bins or industrial size builder’s tubs and place them around your back garden. Even put them under your rain pipes.
Read the rest of Apocalypse Now? To hell with debate, what can the simple folk do?
A fellow autie was chatting with me about the autism spectrum and how categories of Autie and Aspie aren’t as clear cut as many imagine. We were chatting about those with features of each. I talked of Aspie-Auties and Autie-Aspies. She then jokes about Aspinauts, that this could describe those […]
Read the rest of The band, Elwood!; introducing Donna and the Aspinauts
Chris Draper, a scientific researcher with the Born Free Foundation contacted me about a new ‘therapy’ ready to cash in on the tail of that equally hot money spinner in the ever expanding autism marketplace, dolphin therapy.
Read the rest of An Elephant Never Forgets, but we do - the latest money spinner in the autism marketplace.
When I wrote the book, Nobody Nowhere, I was 26 years old and at the end of the line. This month, the book which has been selling for almost 20 years comes out as a revised edition with Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Read the rest of After almost 20 years, Nobody Nowhere gets a face lift.
Our local postmasters are wonderfully autie friendly. However I might get away with being meaning deaf, meaning blind, mono tracked, lacking simultaneous processing of self and other and tumbling pretty much what’s left, these people handle it well with everything from a good natured ‘chuckle with’ to turning a blind eye… CONSTANTLY.
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Each month I send out a challenge for people to send me a 1-2 word topic they’d like me to write a poem to and I must write all the poems in the challenge within 48 hours.
Read the rest of Donna Williams’ May 2008, 48 hr, Poetry Challenge
After recently exhibiting at the United Nations among the world’s best known autistic artists in New York, I have a solo exhibition as part of the ‘Art for a Cause’ program at Gallery 15 @ 15W this May 16th-June 5th 2008, titled “Beyond Words”.
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