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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April11
Donna Williams aged 4
What is Autism? What is autistic behaviour? What is a ‘stim’, a self stimulatory behaviour? What about those ‘funny’ movements?
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April9
Bouquet by Donna Williams
Phi Phi Vietnamese Restaurant, shop 6/21 Main St Upwey, 3158. The best Vietnamese food in the Dandenong Ranges. Lovely owners, Kim and Philip, are gentle, warm, friendly people. Service with a smile of a wonderful range of affordable, authentic traditional Vietnamese dishes. They’re diversity friendly and can adapt to special diets. The atmosphere is gentle and easy. Groups catered for. Reasonable disabled access. Located in Upwey with good parking and 2 min walk from Upwey train station.
Hours: Mon-Fri for lunch 11.30am-3pm, Mon-Thurs for Dinner: 6pm-9.30pm, Fri-Sun 6pm-10pm. Phone (03) 97544808
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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April7
Back to Normality by Donna Williams
A. A strong and persistent identification with the condition of autism (not merely a desire for any perceived cultural advantages of being someone with the condition). Manifested by four (or more) of the following:
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April6
Absent Friends by Donna Williams
I believe identity matters. As such I support the right of humans to identify with any culture, belief or condition. If one believes one has a condition one can accept that belief without harming those who are formally diagnosed with the same condition they identify with. There’s room in this world for both AUTismS the condition and ‘Sexy Autism’ for those who identify with it as a way of thinking/being. And there will be those who live in one or the other and those who have lived elements of both.
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