An exciting art exhibition is bringing together a collection of Australia’s best known and respected graffiti writers in one show in Melbourne’s highly cosmopolitan Collingwood arts district. I spoke to the owner of Lindberg Contemporary Gallery, David Moulday, about the show. Read the rest of this entry »
From harsh beginnings Aisha came into a fortunate adoption with an autism friendly family who are able to see the person she is and work to shape a world in which her personhood can blossom and be appreciated. Here I talk to her adoptive father, David Clark who has an exciting idea of starting an autism community in Brasil. I’ve asked him about it, and about Aisha. Here’s our interview. Read the rest of this entry »
Heta Pukki is a public speaker diagnosed on the autism spectrum who is listed on http://www.auties.org . She she is speaking about the autism world in Finland. She has some interesting things to say about autism history, activism and relationships Autistic style. Here’s our interview. Read the rest of this entry »
Kimberly Tucker first entered my life quietly through a door in a cute living doll’s house in Connecticut. I was a newly published author on a publishing tour in the US and in Connecticut for my first ever public lecture at Trinity College. Kimberly was an undiagnosed woman with Selective Mutism and severe social anxiety. Read the rest of this entry »
Sven Klose was born in Germany and ended up in Scandinavia. He was a musician and has ended up a teckie. He was someone rejected and bullied and is now an advocate who can hold his head up and knows who he is. He’s one of the remarkable people with ASD listed on htttp://www.auties.org and here is our interview: Read the rest of this entry »
DJ Svoboda defies the stereotypes that people with autism lack empathy or imagination for he has an abundance of both. The proof of that is his invention of Imagifriends, a dream of creating a more diversity friendly world and a means of reaching out to the world through his creativity and Imagifriends website. He’s another of the people listed on http://www.auties.org . Here’s our interview: Read the rest of this entry »
Geraldine Robertson is a teacher, an autistic teacher, and she teaches autistic children whilst her presence also teaches their non-autistic classmates about the ability in disABILITY. Read the rest of this entry »
Ron Hedgecock, one of Australia’s oldest diagnosed Aspies, is 72. He’s an Aussie actor, a lecturer in Phrenology and Art History and a public speaker about living with Asperger’s Syndrome. Here’s our interview: Read the rest of this entry »
OK, are you an unemployed adult on the autism spectrum? Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
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 .