April20
Cozy by Donna Williams
OK, so whilst there’s a war about who is autistic, who has Aspergers, whether someone with AS can once have been more autistic, whether someone autism can become someone with Aspergers or outgrow degrees of their autism, the group people most don’t ‘get’ are those slightly outside of the bell curve who nevertheless have the type of personality traits that mean they experience their oddity profoundly or move in circles which are so normality monging that they can smell a
weirdo at 500 paces. Who are these people who feel they have no disability but identify as having AS, even identify as ‘Autistics’? Often they are people with subclinical Aspergers Syndrome.
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April19
If you identified with AS, wanted to confirm your own identification with the label, but had no significant disabilities why would you seek a medical diagnosis? Read the rest of this entry »
April18
Donna Williams aged 12
I heard from an Aspie who said the most riveting thing about discovering ‘autistic culture’… he said that “when someone gets diagnosed in adulthood, they have spent their whole lives learning to be neurotypical so then they have to try and learn how to be autistic”.
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April16
Donna Williams aged 4
According to
Wikipedia, Neurodiversity is about the acceptance of relative equality, acceptance and respect of diverse forms of neurological difference.
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April13
Disclosure by Donna Williams
A poem about my experience of my honors year at university. I almost quit due to the behavior of my supervisor but was told that as my appointments in his office were essential to passing that if I changed supervisors I’d risk failing my honors year.
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April13
Donna Williams aged 9
As an autism consultant with qualifications in teaching, linguistics, sociology, one of my lecture topics as a public speaker is the spectrum of communication disorders and part of my consulting work is helping people understand which communication disorders may be occurring in specific children and adults diagnosed on the autism spectrum.
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April12
Donna Williams aged 4
I’m not comfy with
Narcissists. Sorry y’all. we all have our peeves… extreme Narcissistic Personality Disorder is psychopathy… I grew up with a psychopath.
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April11
Donna Williams aged 4
I get a lot of rudeness but guess what, I notice everyone gets rudeness from each other and sometimes they get rudeness from me!
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April8
Autism and Equality
If only all on the autism spectrum who seek equality know with their entire soul that non-autistic people are as diverse as they are, and deserve more than reverse prejudice
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