Sally Colletti is involved with Advocates for Autism (www.advocateforautism.com) and is compiling a book about Atypical Seizures. When I mentioned my diagnosis in my 20s of Atypical Epilepsy she asked me about my own experiences. Here’s our interview: Read the rest of this entry »
I first met Dr Danczak when I was working as an autism consultant in the UK. When I saw kids who had physical symptoms I’d send them up to him and I was pleased to find most would end up in a healthier state and more switched on and together once their health issues were addressed. Here’s our interview Read the rest of this entry »
Welcome to Autism 2009, the fifth online world conference to be held within the AWARES conference centre.
This conference opens on Monday, November 30, 2009, and runs for a week until December 7, 2009. Paper abstracts will be accessible from early November.
Speaker list includes*:
Professor Simon Baron-Cohen
Donna Williams
Dr Susan Folstein
Dr Gary Mesibov
Professor Susan Leekam
Dr Wendy Lawson
Dr Manuel Casanova
Stephen Shore….
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A parent, Sarah O’Connor, has started her own blog drawing on her experiences with her autistic daughter, Beth. I invited her to send me some interview questions. Here they are. Read the rest of this entry »
Once upon a time I was in Toronto, a place with icy ponds and mother of pearl rainbows sparkled in frost. I was taken to CBS radio station to meet with a journalist, Peter Gzowski. He was a toasty man, a voice like an open fire, a manner like Read the rest of this entry »
Following the recent incendiary theatrics surrounding international autism expert and author, Tony Attwood, I invited him to a Skype interview. I recorded the hour long interview in which I asked Tony about his involvement with FAAS, his take on CAAD, his view on autistic culture and the autistic pride movement, about the concept of hate groups and whether he does farcical characterisations of non-spectrum people too. The result was an amusing interview over on my podcast site, Odd Pod. Read the rest of this entry »
At one of my UK lectures a warm, solid personality sat not far from the front. She exuded a feeling of stability, peace, acceptance and on the break she came over to my book table and gave me a book of her own. Her name was Phoebe Caldwell. Read the rest of this entry »
Lisa Niehoff works for Mainstream Living, Inc which provides services to the disabled in Iowa. She is editor of the company’s monthly newsletter, ‘The Insider’ which profiles disabled artists. She asked if I could write a profile piece for her magazine so instead I invited her to pose me some interview questions, and rather personal they were. Here’s our interview: Read the rest of this entry »
Fiona Crosby is a second year English Literature student at Teesside University currently doing an assignment on The Representation of “disability”. She wanted to ask me questions in relation to the representation of “autistic presence” in contemporary cultural forms. This is our interview: Read the rest of this entry »
The stereotype of Aspergers is of relatively emotionally unexpressive people who lack empathy and imagination. When I met Anthony, he struck me as the closest thing to a walking cartoon. He’s a formally diagnosed Aspie, a fellow ticcer, and one of the most surreal humans I know. His capacity for imagination is broader than most humans can get without psychedelic drugs. He’s also someone naturally empathic whose quick to help or lend an ear. Here’s our interview. Read the rest of this entry »
This is the blog of Donna Williams, author of the best-selling autobiographies Nobody Nowhere and Somebody Somewhere (there are four books in that series), four text/self help books, a book of poetry and prose, and a number of fiction works . She’s the singer-songwriter/composer of two music CD’s and a mad artist, creating paintings and sculptures!
She’s also a wildly prolific screen writer!
You can find her website at http://www.donnawilliams.net