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Tricks of Light
A trick of the light is an optical illusion. We see something that isn’t there, or we see something we think is one thing, then look at it from a different angle and find our perspective is changed,...
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It’s All In The Eye of The Beholder
Whilst Temple Grandin is known for her visual thinking, I was known for talking about the opposite – meaning blindness. This 117 page collection of easy to read essays explores the relationship of...
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Let’s stop calling it ‘the Autism’ – Chronic fight-flight in Exposure...
There’s is considerable overlap between Exposure Anxiety and conditions such as Pathological Demand Avoidance (first diagnosed in 2008), Oppositional Defiance Disorder (first in the literature around...
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What is a Gadoodleborger?
The Gadoodlborger is a term that denoted a person who could translate different ‘normalities’, a ‘bridgekeeper’ between different worlds. It was the highest compliment I could pay to those who...
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Autism friendly read along children’s audio books
First published in 2009, Baloombawop, is an illustrated 51 page off the wall hilarious adventure story by Donna Williams told in Dr Seuss/Roald Dahl/ Lewis Carroll like rhyme from start to finish. It...
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Inspiration Porn, autism, and Truman Show
HOW MANY TRUMANS DO WE STILL NEED? Bullshit scares some of us… it scares me… I’m from a background of mentally ill parents… conduct disorder, attachment disorder, munchausen by proxy, addictions,...
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CHEMO LOVE by Donna Williams
I was 47 years old in June 2011 when I found a lump in my left breast. It was the size of an almond and I felt certain it was just another cyst like the other two lumps which had already made homes in...
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THE ADVENTURES OF A WEED by Donna Williams
The Adventures of a Weed by Donna Williams Once upon a time, there was a weed who lived among the grass, in a patch by the road, in a street in the suburbs where nothing changed and things always...
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THE JOURNEY by Donna Williams
To my husband Chris who journeyed with me 17 years teaching and gifting me so many things & to my friends Scott & Morghana who understood what journey meant and gave me the joy of watching...
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TRICKS OF LIGHT by Donna Williams
A trick of the light is an optical illusion. We see something that isn’t there, or we see something we think is one thing, then look at it from a different angle and find our perspective is changed,...
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