July13
It was always very hard for me to talk about the ‘fruit salad’ of my parents. In the autism world there was MASSIVE taboo to speak of having anything other than wonderful, loving, well adjusted parents… otherwise one was ‘an abuse case’, everything about one’s developmental disabilities was then cast into some ‘pity box’, one couldn’t possibly have be a REAL ‘autistic’ because ‘real autistics’ were only and ever then born to ‘healthy’ parents. Read the rest of this entry »
June13
Iris by Donna Williams
This month’s artwork is titled ‘
Iris’.
It is 26 cm x 42 cm, acrylic on paper. Some of the irises look like dancers, butterflies, nudes, fairies. It’s a whimsical painting, full of movement. It is gently joyous. I hope you enjoy the painting. You can see it and others in my online
gallery.
Warmly,
Donna Williams *)
http://www.donnawilliams.net
June13
Donna Williams aged 8 with GTS convertible
In 1970, when I was 7 years old, my family had moved from the small rented house into a big two story house in Preston. In went a built in swimming pool, well supplied bar, snooker table, chandeliers, mirror walls, and filled with antiques and racks of guns displayed openly on the walls. There was a revolver in the drawer of the front dresser just inside the front door.
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June7
Donna Williams aged 4
Those who grow up meaning deaf (verbal agnosia) often have exceptionally good use of peripheral vision. Those with a form of meaning blindness called Simultagnosia in which one sees the part and loses the whole often employ peripheral vision as a means of filtering out the level of incoming information they’d otherwise get through rods in the front of the eyes as a means of reducing sensory flooding, allowing the brain more time to process what’s left in a similar way that some therapeutic tinted lenses do too. A recent
study showed peripheral vision is also more highly developed among those who deaf from an early age.
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May13
Terrain by Donna Williams
This month’s artwork is titled ‘Terrain’.
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May12
Schizotypal by Donna Williams
and Dissociative Disorders.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder is also deemed to be along the same spectrum as Schizophrenia at the extreme end and
Schizoid Personality Disorder at the more mild end. So it may be that Schizophrenia is not as much the antithesis of Autism as we had imagined.
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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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