 We all get them, year after year….those PR ‘Christmas cards’ which remind us that a company is thinking of us (and their potential future capacity to profit from us). Read the rest of this entry »
 Sacha Vais, editor and founder of Irked Magazine, contacted me with an exciting interview opportunity. I was to be their Melbourne correspondent covering the International Homeless World Cup which had come to Melbourne this week. Here’s the scoop.
I wrote an article on object blindness and context blindness and got this reply: Read the rest of this entry »
Not into sport? What about culture, equality, spirituality, humanity? What about being part of something inspirational, awesome, deeply human and drivingly purposeful? The International Homeless World Cup 2008 is on this year in Melbourne. Read the rest of this entry »
 I’m aware of some of the insanity out there on the web… suicide via media, anorexia worship, bullying people into suicide, abuse for notoriety, predators and their patronage, living room bomb makers. Any of this could make censorship look important. But there’s another side. I received this in my email: Read the rest of this entry »
 In my 30s a good friend gave me a precious piece of paper with a sentence on it. It was about the opportunity of change and that when we fight change the most likely gift is pain. She died shortly after that and I remembered that sentence as I mourned that loss and celebrated her spiritual presence in the beliefs, philosophies and sisterhood she had shared with me. Read the rest of this entry »
 So you feel sorry for the shopkeepers this Christmas if you don’t buy an A-Z of consumables. But what you may not realise is Read the rest of this entry »
I had a letter from a parent asking me about cure and where I stand. Here’s my reply. Read the rest of this entry »
 
Autistic Pride has its sane moderates who see the positive, wonderful aspects of autism, and it has it’s extremists. This article addresses only its extremists. Be warned, it’s not PC. Read the rest of this entry »
 I was born in the 1960s, before the abolition of the White Australia Policy. It was a shameful time of Anglo-Australians presuming themselves the First, the Real, Australians. 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 .