Sick of being used, being a doormat, a pleaser, having people leech on you at the expense of developing their own resources, skills or coming to terms with their own lives? Read the rest of this entry »
Don’t fear death…it is just the body evicting its TENANT… we never owned these houses, our biological mechanisms did… we rent space, pay for it with food, drink, warmth in caring for our host… the body Read the rest of this entry »
Finished chemo Dec 2011. Mar 2012 was diagnosed with Central Apnea – brain MRI fine – phew. Inflammatory tenosynovitis made my hands claw up and feet immensely painful to walk… Read the rest of this entry »
For some months now I’ve been peeing vast volumes of urine. Read the rest of this entry »
I was asked to write some words of encouragement to a group of functionally non verbal teens with autism who use their typed communication in their work on a wonderful monthly newsletter produced by a group in Arizona called ACT. This is what I wrote: Read the rest of this entry »
The Call by Donna Williams
Warrior by Donna Williams http://www.donnawilliams.net/Gallery/Available/index.html
Our desires and wants are influenced by those we’re connected to… so if we are socially disconnected and find we want or desire little/nothing… the solution is to get connected… whether we like it or not… because it will probably, sooner or later, activate us to want and desire something… hmm
Donna Williams, BA Hons, Dip Ed.
Author, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter.
Autism consultant and public speaker.
http://www.donnawilliams.net
Every time I think, hey I feel fine, I’ll get back to work, I’ll, I’ll, oh damn, another infection… third one this year (the other two were Staph.. a new adventure)… I say, its ok, you are ancient in terms of primary immune deficiencies… Read the rest of this entry »
DIAGNOSIS
In 2012 I saw a Clinical Pharmacologist/vascular specialist about my already diagnosed Dysautonomia. As a result I got diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos type 4… the vascular type. 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 .