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Google Preview: Donna Williams was born in Australia in 1963. She was assessed at age two as psychotic, labelled disturbed and tested for deafness throughout childhood before being diagnosed as autistic in 1990. Today she is an internationally best-selling author with nine published books, an artist, singer-songwriter and emerging screenwriter. One of the most well-known people with autism in the world, Donna is a renowned international public speaker, a qualified teacher and has worked as an autism consultant since 1995.; Origins; who's me?; the essence of ''Social''; the everything of nothing; the mechanics of sensing; in resonance (resonance); giving self a chance to answer; the getting of clever; ''Seeing Ghosts''; war or growth?; blah blah and ideas; progress?; beyond an exchange of cultures; multiplicity; psychic?; why nobody's talking; mechanics problems; imagine.; This is a fascinating book in which Donna Williams elaborates on the ideas proposed in her previous autobiographical works. Ms Williams suggests that we all go through a developmental process from purely sensing the world, to being able to interpret it. People with autism are either 'stuck' in the sensory phase or, if they emerge from it, do so at a later stage and with great difficulty. According to this model, the benefits of being able to interpret arise at the cost of losing true sensing ability. That is, the 'feel' of people, the 'smell' of colours, the texture of objects which give the author understanding of her environment, these are experiences no longer recognisable to those of us who have moved on to interpret instead. Many parents would recognise aspects of their children's behaviour in those described in this book. I was intrigued by the author's idiosyncratic use of language, to describe her experiences: in one instance she used `lemons' to define `the sensation of acute and intense exposure to anxiety, resulting in an involuntary or instinctual aversion response', based on the physical reaction evoked by eating lemons. Anyone who enjoyed her previous work will no doubt find this equally riveting.; Download; Google Preview content

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