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 »
Marc Segar was a man with Asperger’s back in the 90s before today’s autistic pride movement, who aspired to non-autistic ‘normality’, achieved a semblance of it, and died after jumping a divider and walking into oncoming traffic on a UK motorway. Read the rest of this entry »
Amanda Baggs shot to notoriety after pictures of her caused controversy on an autistic pride website. After she produced a You Tube video featuring herself typing her communication, she featured on US TV and her video was seen by over a 1/4 of a million viewers, inspiring functionally non-verbal people with autism and their families around the globe. Read the rest of this entry »
Richard Attfield is a fellow autistic artist and one of the authors featured in Autism and The Myth of The Person Alone edited by Doug Biklen. He was one of the first people with autism in the UK to Read the rest of this entry »
Tom has an interest in killers and the macabre, a fascination with famous people and a calling toward music and digital art. He’s also a young man with Asperger’s and a fascinating one at that. Here’s our interview… Read the rest of this entry »
A wild interview with 11 year old Aspie teenager, Lewis Schofield, by Donna Williams Read the rest of this entry »
DONNA WILLIAMS:
Hi Nick. We met recently over email and you kindly sent me a copy of Hollywood, Amarroo. It’s a very provocative book.
Could you tell the readers a bit about what compelled you to write it? Read the rest of this entry »
Quite the storyteller and a master of litanies, my father’s forte was one sided ‘conversation’ but he was very good at characterisations. He wouldn’t tell you about someone or what had happened, he’d show you the whole play and play each part as he did. He’d put on their style, their voice, their movements and jump between characters as he told a story. Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s an interview with fellow autie artist, Deborah Thorsos.
Deborah is one of the many talented people on the autism spectrum who have listed her work on www.auties.org (it’s all free). Read the rest of this entry »
Bestselling fantasy fiction author, Caiseal Mor, was diagnosed with ASD as a child. He’d written his autobiography in adulthood but the publishers and the journalists who helped his fiction works climb to fame were convinced that public awareness of his autism would be unhelpful to book sales. He was not only strongly discouraged from going public about having ASD but a whole other persona was created for him instead. 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 .