April23
Donna Williams aged 2 months
What is the usual
development of eye contact in babies? When do they begin to use two eyes together, develop depth perception enough to reach for objects and understand where their body is in space? When and how do babies develop hand-eye co-ordination, develop visual memory as part of fine motor skills development and self feeding? What are the visual perceptual milestones toddlers go through to develop visualisation skills?
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April23
Disclosure by Donna Williams
There’s surely some out there that are healthy but being someone who can’t remember the name of one from another, I am designed for over all impressions and rather poor at brand loyalty.
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April20
Hope by Donna Williams
Guess what… life’s tough, most people won’t understand you… mostly nobody will care about your ‘shit’… and generally that’s a symptom of a serious social disability called OVER POPULATION… it can probably be cured by condoms… if we cure it enough we’ll all most probably stop taking each other for granted – guaranteed. Fact is Dr Phil and Oprah may well have lied… the world was probably never designed to be kind and equal to all… its overpopulated, has generally bred greed and competition, heirachy and hypocrisy.. its time we faced up to the fact most of us are generally too selfish to care about the planet and too selfish to care about any children but our own ones, and too selfish to care about any groups but our own homies and essentially if we had to walk 5 miles to the next human most of us would really appreciate them whoever they were.
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April20
Cozy by Donna Williams
OK, so whilst there’s a war about who is autistic, who has Aspergers, whether someone with AS can once have been more autistic, whether someone autism can become someone with Aspergers or outgrow degrees of their autism, the group people most don’t ‘get’ are those slightly outside of the bell curve who nevertheless have the type of personality traits that mean they experience their oddity profoundly or move in circles which are so normality monging that they can smell a
weirdo at 500 paces. Who are these people who feel they have no disability but identify as having AS, even identify as ‘Autistics’? Often they are people with subclinical Aspergers Syndrome.
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April19
If you identified with AS, wanted to confirm your own identification with the label, but had no significant disabilities why would you seek a medical diagnosis? Read the rest of this entry »
April18
Donna Williams aged 12
I heard from an Aspie who said the most riveting thing about discovering ‘autistic culture’… he said that “when someone gets diagnosed in adulthood, they have spent their whole lives learning to be neurotypical so then they have to try and learn how to be autistic”.
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April16
Donna Williams aged 4
According to
Wikipedia, Neurodiversity is about the acceptance of relative equality, acceptance and respect of diverse forms of neurological difference.
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April13
Disclosure by Donna Williams
A poem about my experience of my honors year at university. I almost quit due to the behavior of my supervisor but was told that as my appointments in his office were essential to passing that if I changed supervisors I’d risk failing my honors year.
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April13
Donna Williams aged 9
As an autism consultant with qualifications in teaching, linguistics, sociology, one of my lecture topics as a public speaker is the spectrum of communication disorders and part of my consulting work is helping people understand which communication disorders may be occurring in specific children and adults diagnosed on the autism spectrum.
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