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ARTISM blog – art work of the month – April 2011 “Terrain”

May13

Terrain by Donna Williams

Terrain by Donna Williams

This month’s artwork is titled ‘Terrain’. Read the rest of this entry »

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Autism, Aspergers and Schizotypal Personality Disorder

May12

Schizotypal by Donna Williams

Schizotypal by Donna Williams

Schizotypal personality disorder has an extremely high co-occurrence with both Autism and Dissociative Disorders. Schizotypal Personality Disorder is also deemed to be along the same spectrum as Schizophrenia at the extreme end and Schizoid Personality Disorder at the more mild end. So it may be that Schizophrenia is not as much the antithesis of Autism as we had imagined. Read the rest of this entry »

Dissociative Identity Disorder, ghosts, reincarnation, possession and imaginary friends

May3

Sense of purpose by Donna Williams

Sense of purpose by Donna Williams

Dissociation, alters, co-consciousness and PTSD nightmares can be extremely hard for children with DID to understand and those with awareness of any of their alters or experiencing co-consciousness or PTSD nightmares may easily conclude they are haunted or that their alters are ghosts or imaginary friends even if they had no conscious role in creating them and just ‘discovered’ they were already in existence Read the rest of this entry »

Let’s stop calling it ‘the autism’ – Eye contact in babies

April23

Donna Williams aged 2 months

Donna Williams aged 2 months

What is the usual development of eye contact in babies? When do they begin to use two eyes together, develop depth perception enough to reach for objects and understand where their body is in space? When and how do babies develop hand-eye co-ordination, develop visual memory as part of fine motor skills development and self feeding? What are the visual perceptual milestones toddlers go through to develop visualisation skills? Read the rest of this entry »

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Autism forums

April23

Disclosure by Donna Williams

Disclosure by Donna Williams

There’s surely some out there that are healthy but being someone who can’t remember the name of one from another, I am designed for over all impressions and rather poor at brand loyalty. Read the rest of this entry »

Who said life is fair?

April20

Hope by Donna Williams

Hope by Donna Williams

Guess what… life’s tough, most people won’t understand you… mostly nobody will care about your ‘shit’… and generally that’s a symptom of a serious social disability called OVER POPULATION… it can probably be cured by condoms… if we cure it enough we’ll all most probably stop taking each other for granted – guaranteed. Fact is Dr Phil and Oprah may well have lied… the world was probably never designed to be kind and equal to all… its overpopulated, has generally bred greed and competition, heirachy and hypocrisy.. its time we faced up to the fact most of us are generally too selfish to care about the planet and too selfish to care about any children but our own ones, and too selfish to care about any groups but our own homies and essentially if we had to walk 5 miles to the next human most of us would really appreciate them whoever they were. Read the rest of this entry »

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Is Asperger’s real? The case for subclinical Aspergers.

April20

Cozy by Donna Williams

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Aspergers diagnosis versus identification

April19

Circus Tightrope by Donna Williams 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 »

Learning to be an Autistic

April18

Donna Williams aged 12

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”. Read the rest of this entry »

What is Neurodiversity?

April16

Donna Williams aged 4

Donna Williams aged 4

According to Wikipedia, Neurodiversity is about the acceptance of relative equality, acceptance and respect of diverse forms of neurological difference. Read the rest of this entry »

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