Thoroughly addicted to videos, one autistic child after another will go without eating, sleeping, washing, dressing, schooling, even the toilet to reply, just one more millionth time their favorite Disney, Thomas The Tank or Bob The Builder video. Like addicts
I have had lucid dreaming for years. When I was a child I had night terrors which are basically like lucid dreaming whilst also sleep walking. Read the rest of this entry »
This week I got this marvelous little gem through the email. It went like this….
Congratulations Donna Williams!
Listeners on American Idol Underground have rated your song among the top 50 tracks in the Jazz genre during the previous week.
I had to renew my prescription this week for the small amount of atypical anti psychotic medication that helps me cope with life and found myself talking about medication and the concept of ‘being oneself’. Read the rest of this entry »
Last year we got some Jerusalem artichoke plants. Four innocuous little plants in small innocuous little pots. We planted them, excited about the idea of growing them and having such an exotic vegetable in the foreseeable future. Fast forward one year. Read the rest of this entry »
We can commit constructive suicide every day
We can kill off the call to the adrenaline rush of threatening our own life
We can kill off the lust to provoke regret from our enemies
We can kill off the enjoyment of indulging in projections of our own self pity of how ‘they’ll all wish I’d lived’. Read the rest of this entry »
 Someone wrote to me from out of the ether after getting my CD. It was a beautiful letter about feeling found through having connected with the songs but also the most tangible aloneness as though they were calling from the darkness somewhere. People forget that I too am a stranger Read the rest of this entry »
I was asked, if I was a religious person would I pray for someone’s autistic child that this child would become ‘reachable’.
When my first book, Nobody Nowhere was up for publication my landlord helped deal with the business side of things, with my agent and publishers.
We had several bidders for the book, each with their own take on things. We were offered more by one company but the publisher came into the house having just done a horrifically violent book about a psychopath and raved about that success Read the rest of this entry »
Choices are like shopping, they are a supermarket. Some products will have too many additives and overpower the real subtleties and tastes with what’s imposed. Some products will be too candied, too salted, others all wrapper and Read the rest of this entry »
Donna Williams is an Australian born adult with autism who was assessed as psychotic at the age of 2 in 1965, labelled disturbed in the 1970s and diagnosed as autistic in her 20s in 1991.
She acquired functional speech in late childhood and went on to become a qualified teacher with an honors degree in Sociology and a degree in Linguistics. She is the author of two international bestselling autobiographies and has 10 published books including 4 text books widely used in autism education and two books of poetry and prose.
As a screenwriter, she wrote the screenplay to “Nobody Nowhere”, the first book in her 4 book autobiographical series. That screenplay is currently under option to become a Hollywood film. She is an professional artist, singer-songwriter and published poet as well as a world renowned public speaker on autism now living with her husband in Australia. In her presentations she draws not only on her own experiences but on international experience as a professional autism consultant since 1996.
Donna’s is a speaker in demand around the world due to her unique perspective and ability to share her feelings and experiences on a very personal level. More information about her and her life’s work can be found on her website at http://www.donnawilliams.net .