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Ever the arty Autie

Diagnosis, autism and untidy boxes and THAT ABC interview with Kathy Gollan.

March17

Donna Williams with balloon The world of diagnosis is very strange. Read the rest of this entry »

Vaccination payout but what does it mean for autism in general?

March6

Back to Normality by Donna Williams The US has had its first government payout for vaccination damage in a case of autism. Read the rest of this entry »

Madness, Mt Everest and a dog named Beau.

February12

Here by Donna Williams I’m interviewing an adventurer of inner worlds and an explorer of Everest. He’s a man who has reached the professional heights of photographic art, the spiritual depths of becoming a relatively balanced human, and the chaos of paranoid schizophrenia. He’s a fascinating man, welcome to an interview with Stuart Baker-Brown. Read the rest of this entry »

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Adelaide Fringe Festival March 2008

February5

Daring to Dare by Donna Williams Edinburgh has it’s Fringe Festival and so does our own Aussie City of Festivals – Adelaide, South Australia. This Fringe Festival promises something really unique and to find out about it I interviewed Aspie colleague, Katharine Annear , an ASD Advisor with Spectrum Advisory Services
who works for Autism SA. Read the rest of this entry »

Can autism be cured?

January24

Back to Normal by artist Donna Williams I’m going to start with a story, a silly story of imaginary characters, each of them, autistic Read the rest of this entry »

Donna Williams’ January 2008 interactive Poetry Challenge

January24

Enigma by artist Donna Williams Thanks so much to those who sent in poem titles for the recent 24 hour poetry challenge. Here’s the poems. Read the rest of this entry »

Cyber Bully

January21

Learning Curve by autistic artist, Donna Williams I’m sure most of you have had one. Read the rest of this entry »

People with autism can be proactive.

January19

Got It by autistic artist, Donna Williams The level of unemployment among people on the autism spectrum is massive. Read the rest of this entry »

Donna Williams’ December 2007 interactive Poetry Challenge

December8

Conversation by autistic artist, Donna Williams http://www.donnawilliams.net I sent out a challenge for those on my mailing list to send me a single word topic they’d like me to write a poem to and decided to write all the poems in the challenge within 24 hours… here’s the result. Read the rest of this entry »

High functioning versus low functioning autism

November22

Run by autistic artist, Donna Williams High versus Low Functioning depends on the nature of the ‘autism fruit salad’ underpinning the diagnosis with autism.

These ‘autism fruit salads’ can be standard or exotic, simple or complex, small or large quantities or pieces, separated contents or very mixed up. Read the rest of this entry »

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