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 »
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 »
DID YOU OR ANY FAMILY MEMBER OR YOUR GRANDMOTHERS OR GREAT GRANDMOTHERS HAVE ARTERIES OR ORGANS SPONTANEOUSLY RUPTURE?…. Read the rest of this entry »
ALIEN EXPERIENCE
Bored that I am with my boring little world
If I created fantasticorium, a little less snorelorium
I might have met with the creatures from another galaxy
and because I was so important and so interesting,
they beamed me up, abducting me
and their space ship was amazing, more than you will ever know
for only I was to be taken where the special people go.
But when I got to the door of the spaceship I was made to step aside
For the door was too small for my head, so I couldn’t get inside.
by Donna Williams
http://www.donnawilliams.net/weirdoslikeme.0.html
Most people associated with the autism rights or autistic cultural movements have no idea what it was like at the start…
Jim Sinclair reminds us:
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The Call by Donna Williams
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 »
Hello Donna,
My name is Tilly and I’m an A-level art student from a UK secondary school called Ruislip High.
While searching through the Internet for inspiration, I came across your website and was completely inspired. Read the rest of this entry »
Being 49 years old and just diagnosed with EDS IV (vascular type) I ask myself how I got this far with a condition that has an average life expectancy of 40 years old and a median life expectancy of 48. I have certainly had a lifetime of health issues but I haven’t had the brain aneurysms or uterus rupture of my cousins nor yet had the diverticulitis of my brother. Did I do anything differently to others growing up with EDS IV? Here’s my views on what I may have done right, by choice, by default, by accident. 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 .