A forum recently started a thread called ‘I hate’.
I went on a bit of a bender but I can promise my ‘I love’ list is much longer than my hate list. Read the rest of this entry »

  This is a little clip I did last Christmas.

Enjoy.

Donna Williams *)

http://www.donnawilliams.net

  Each month I send out a challenge for people to send me a 1-2 word topic they’d like me to write a poem to and I must write all the poems in the challenge within 48 hours. People CAN’T send names (yes, everyone wants one named after their child ) but they can send other 1-2 word titles. Each sender only gets me writing one poem per poetry challenge and the more surreal the challenge, the better. Read the rest of this entry »

I was asked by a parent of a son with autism about my language history.  I hope there comes a day where we stop understand that serious language and communication disorders in those with autism actually have identifiable labels of their own with their own associated strategies and treatments and stop mystifying them as ‘the autism’.  So here’s what I’d replied to the question. Read the rest of this entry »

    I invited some of my readers to interview me on particular books which had been helpful to them.  Kathleen chose to interview me about the book Exposure Anxiety; The Invisible Cage of Involuntary Self Protection Responses.  Here’s that interview: Read the rest of this entry »

  I lived 35 years with two primary immune deficiencies and their impact on blood health Read the rest of this entry »

I wrote an article on object blindness and context blindness and got this reply: Read the rest of this entry »

What is an AWARES conference?  Well, for starters its where for a limited time you get to ask world renowned experts all your autism related questions for a registration fee of £5 (about $11 Australian dollars).   Am I over there?  Yep.  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 »

  Having worked a lot with children with autism who display visual agnosias including object blindness and context blindness Read the rest of this entry »