All kinds of people have or adopt special needs children.  Read the rest of this entry »

Hi Donna
I have heard recently that medications such as Prozac can sometimes be used to reduce some of the more distressing aspects of autism, and wondered if you know much about this, or have an opinion about it. Read the rest of this entry »

  Autistic Pride has its sane moderates who see the positive, wonderful aspects of autism,  and it has it’s extremists.  This article addresses only its extremists.  Be warned, it’s not PC. Read the rest of this entry »

  Many a book has recently been published laying claim to most of the high achievers of history being on the autism spectrum.  Temple Grandin was so confident about it, she put it in her books Read the rest of this entry »

  Pam Lane is from the Dallas chapter of Autism Society of America for whom I’m presenting this November 2008.  I gave her the opportunity to ask me some questions before speaking in Dallas.  Here’s our interview: Read the rest of this entry »

  I was approached by a student in architecture, Regina Chen, from The National University of  Singapore about the way people with autism perceive space.  Whilst I’m only one person with autism and every ‘autism fruit salad’ is a different combination, I have worked with 100s of people on the autism spectrum so felt I’d reply as best I could keeping that diversity in mind.  Here’s my replies: Read the rest of this entry »

  Some adults on the autism spectrum consider they would really like to help others on the autism spectrum and asked how I became an autism consultant.  Here’s the synopsis. Read the rest of this entry »

  I heard from Jen, a reader who had read one of my 9 published books, Somebody Somewhere.  It was an international bestseller and reached number 1 in Canada, Japan and Norway, and was the second of four sequels to, Nobody Nowhere, which had reached number 1 in USA, Canada, Japan and Norway.  So I invited Jen to ask her 5 most burning questions about it.  Here’s our interview: Read the rest of this entry »

  So many of the kindhearted, inspirational women on AWA are so wildly gifted, brilliant, highly intelligent.  Read the rest of this entry »

  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 this entry »