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Dissociative Identity Disorder, ghosts, reincarnation, possession and imaginary friends

May3

Sense of purpose by Donna Williams

Sense of purpose by Donna Williams

Dissociation, alters, co-consciousness and PTSD nightmares can be extremely hard for children with DID to understand and those with awareness of any of their alters or experiencing co-consciousness or PTSD nightmares may easily conclude they are haunted or that their alters are ghosts or imaginary friends even if they had no conscious role in creating them and just ‘discovered’ they were already in existence Read the rest of this entry »

Is Asperger’s real? The case for subclinical Aspergers.

April20

Cozy by Donna Williams

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Learning to be an Autistic

April18

Donna Williams aged 12

Donna Williams aged 12

I heard from an Aspie who said the most riveting thing about discovering ‘autistic culture’… he said that “when someone gets diagnosed in adulthood, they have spent their whole lives learning to be neurotypical so then they have to try and learn how to be autistic”. Read the rest of this entry »

What is Neurodiversity?

April16

Donna Williams aged 4

Donna Williams aged 4

According to Wikipedia, Neurodiversity is about the acceptance of relative equality, acceptance and respect of diverse forms of neurological difference. Read the rest of this entry »

What is Autism?

April13

Got it by Donna Williams

Got it by Donna Williams

Autism is Read the rest of this entry »

Let’s stop calling it ‘the Autism’ – Communication disorders – let’s stop calling it ‘the autism’

April13

Donna Williams aged 9

Donna Williams aged 9

As an autism consultant with qualifications in teaching, linguistics, sociology, one of my lecture topics as a public speaker is the spectrum of communication disorders and part of my consulting work is helping people understand which communication disorders may be occurring in specific children and adults diagnosed on the autism spectrum. Read the rest of this entry »

Donna Williams has Multiple Personalities?

April12

Donna Williams aged 4

Donna Williams aged 4

I’m not comfy with Narcissists. Sorry y’all. we all have our peeves… extreme Narcissistic Personality Disorder is psychopathy… I grew up with a psychopath. Read the rest of this entry »

Stereotypies – Lets stop calling it ‘the autism’

April11

Donna Williams aged 4

Donna Williams aged 4

What is Autism? What is autistic behaviour? What is a ‘stim’, a self stimulatory behaviour? What about those ‘funny’ movements? Read the rest of this entry »

Autistic Identity Disorder ?

April7

Back to Normality by Donna Williams

Back to Normality by Donna Williams

A. A strong and persistent identification with the condition of autism (not merely a desire for any perceived cultural advantages of being someone with the condition). Manifested by four (or more) of the following: Read the rest of this entry »

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Visual Perceptual Disorders in children with autism

April2

Donna Williams aged 4 months old

Donna Williams aged 4 months old

There are a lot of people who think I was a cute baby, and sure, I was. But there were things amiss. Read the rest of this entry »

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