THE BUTTERFLY CLUB
presents…Donna & The Aspinauts play at The Butterfly Club, Melbourne’s swanky home of camp kitsch, in an evening of irreverent avant-garde poetry and flamboyant musical surrealism with a satirical bent.

Dare to be there.

Wednesday 4th March 2009
8pm-9pm
Cost: $22

The Butterfly Club
204 Bank St, South Melbourne

For bookings, email: info@thebutterflyclub.com
other enquiries: phone (03)9690 2000

http://www.thebutterflyclub.com/

   OK, so you’re face blind, a little meaning deaf, maybe you have social-emotional agnosia and can’t read facial expression or body language to save your life or are as literal as a real life Mr Spock.  Would you be a little socially phobia?  Have a little social anxiety?  Struggle socially in the mainstream?

Well, how do a bunch of autistic people with this stuff rock up to a popular live music venue in the inner city and hang out among a crowd of potentially largely non-autism-spectrum people?  Read the rest of this entry »

   Kissing… it can be engulfing, sloppy, overwhelming and messy and even worse if one of the parties has a gut disorder, tooth decay or just doesn’t brush – ew.  And some of us have to warm up to directly confrontational mouth kisses, especially those of us who see faces in pieces or are face blind – ew – that fragmented face comin’ at ya when it hasn’t yet registered fully what or who this belongs to – aik.  And then there’s Read the rest of this entry »

  Hi friends, colleagues and enthusiasts!

It’s Christmas and what a year! Read the rest of this entry »

  A forum recently started a thread called ‘I hate’.
I went on a bit of a bender but I can promise my ‘I love’ list is much longer than my hate list. Read the rest of this entry »

  This is a little clip I did last Christmas.

Enjoy.

Donna Williams *)

http://www.donnawilliams.net

I was asked by a parent of a son with autism about my language history.  I hope there comes a day where we stop understand that serious language and communication disorders in those with autism actually have identifiable labels of their own with their own associated strategies and treatments and stop mystifying them as ‘the autism’.  So here’s what I’d replied to the question. Read the rest of this entry »

    I invited some of my readers to interview me on particular books which had been helpful to them.  Kathleen chose to interview me about the book Exposure Anxiety; The Invisible Cage of Involuntary Self Protection Responses.  Here’s that interview: Read the rest of this entry »

  I lived 35 years with two primary immune deficiencies and their impact on blood health Read the rest of this entry »

I wrote an article on object blindness and context blindness and got this reply: Read the rest of this entry »