He broke up with his girlfriend. She was seeing an older man. So he shot 32 people on a Virginia college campus.
Illogical?
Somehow not to him. But how? Read the rest of this entry »
Ah, a brave new world indeed. Read the rest of this entry »
With up to 60% of people with Asperger’s Syndrome reporting being bullied in secondary schools on a daily basis we have an epidemic of intolerance which points at a currently undiagnosed and far more widespread and damaging pathology than Asperger’s Syndrome will ever be. Others reports put figures at closer to 90%. Read the rest of this entry »
Congratulations Four Corners.The US government may have gagged Australian, David Hicks, illegally imprisoned for five years, tortured and kept in solitary confinement for something that was no crime when arrested nor any crime under Australian law, but you, Four Corners, you have been a voice of the voiceless. Read the rest of this entry »
The local paper isn’t usually the place one expects riveting news but I was this week it was. Read the rest of this entry »
Our friend and wonderfully sharp, witty, blogger, Chris Borthwick, wrote an interesting entry about Phillip Ruddock’s foot-in-mouth episode regarding the illegal detention of David Hicks. Read the rest of this entry »
The room was noisy and a chicken coup. People mingled, glasses in hand, smiley, interested heads bobbing. My husband Chris and I hugged our chairs in a quiet, rather solitary space outside of the hub-bub. A waitress came around with canapes. It sounds like canned apes, but no, in fact its little hors d’oeuvres – kind of said, ‘horses doovers’ – consisting of mini pastry things with artistically stuffed contents, and pretty much all but one shaslik containing dairy and or gluten. No snackos for me then. Read the rest of this entry »
I have an art exhibition coming up in Melbourne
April 11th-May 2nd,
Gallery 15,
15 William St, Melbourne.
open Monday-Friday 9am-6pm.
info@peakevents.com.au
It’s a wonderful inner city gallery involved with a program called Art for a Cause in which artists can use their work to raise awareness or funds for a cause they support.
Some people in the non-USA world view America as a whole as having money as its God.
If the president is the largest power in people’s lives next to God
and if they give him the power of life and death as they believe God has
then what do we make of the fact that George Bush got into power as a result of a record 100 million dollar election campaign, the most expensive in world history….. Read the rest of this entry »
I received a letter from a reader, convinced that autism was a state of torture, of being one of the living dead, unable to feel anything for anyone or anything in the external world. 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 .