Donna Williams’ Blog

Ever the arty Autie

Go vegan and save the planet? What’s your excuse?

Our TV here in Australia has just had advertisements urging everyone to go vegetarian. That may not sound so strange but we, like the US, are a meat producing nation.

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Apocalypse Now? To hell with debate, what can the simple folk do?

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.

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An Elephant Never Forgets, but we do - the latest money spinner in the autism marketplace.

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.

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Let’s ditch the boxes.

OK, so you buy the toothpaste in it’s fancy cardboard box and bring it home and first thing you do is throw that dyed, bleached, often not even recycled cardboard into the rubbish bin, or hopefully at least the recycle bin. You do it, I do it, and gazillions of households world […]

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Autism; it ain’t all physical.

I was born into a very challenged and challenging household of unusual, eccentric, personalities.

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Breathing mercury and fed on rhetoric.

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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Autism, fluoride and gut and metabolic damage

Is there a link between fluoride toxicity, gastro-intestinal damage and Salicylate intolerance commonly found in those with ADHD and Autism?

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The Great Climate Change Swindle? Or trumped up controversy?

Those of you breathing a sigh of relief over the thought that the theory of man made climate change may have had holes in it, may not want to read this for fear of a big dose of realism. For those who dare, here’s the findings of the world’s leading governmental International […]

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Marc Segar and Existential Angst: an ASD interview by Donna Williams

Marc Segar was a man with Asperger’s back in the 90s before today’s autistic pride movement, who aspired to non-autistic ‘normality’, achieved a semblance of it, and died after jumping a divider and walking into oncoming traffic on a UK motorway.

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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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