It’s strange perhaps, but somehow those who don’t converse sometimes take the role of family dog or cat, and hear some chilling confesions. Read the rest of this entry »
This week a group of so called Ku Klux Klan in Australia, threatened to bash up Aboriginal children out after dark in Lismore. Read the rest of this entry »
People got busy
Electronica ate time
We got eaten up by subliminal advertising, streamlining and labels
Till individuality wasn’t a given, it was a flag wave. Read the rest of this entry »
I wrote that finding out I was autistic gave me “hope for forgiveness”. When I friend asked me what this phrase meant, Read the rest of this entry »
OK, I’m autistic, but what do I feel are some of the most important things society needs to know about, wonder about and maybe even be moved to do something about? Do I care about the world? About things beyond the world of autism? Read the rest of this entry »
I was recently sent an extraordinary video clip which I sent out to those signed up to my mailing list. I got such a wonderful response from people after that clip that I thought I’d make it available to the rest of you. Read the rest of this entry »
Fellow author, Temple Grandin, wrote and lectured much on ‘thinking in pictures’, imagining that, because a majority of high functioning people with Asperger’s did think in pictures (though many were auditory thinkers who thought in words) that, therefore, this was indicative of how ALL people with autism thought. On this basis she claimed that as ‘the woman who thinks like a cow’ that not only all autistic people think in pictures, but went further to project this predominant visual thinking style onto animals too. In fact visual thinking is the most common mode of thought for ALL people – around 60 %-65% of the population think in pictures. So how about the rest of us? Read the rest of this entry »
Thoroughly addicted to videos, one autistic child after another will go without eating, sleeping, washing, dressing, schooling, even the toilet to reply, just one more millionth time their favorite Disney, Thomas The Tank or Bob The Builder video. Like addicts
I have had lucid dreaming for years. When I was a child I had night terrors which are basically like lucid dreaming whilst also sleep walking. Read the rest of this entry »
This week I got this marvelous little gem through the email. It went like this….
Congratulations Donna Williams!
Listeners on American Idol Underground have rated your song among the top 50 tracks in the Jazz genre during the previous week.
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 .