Donna Williams explore les expériences vécues par les personnes autistes, offrant une fenêtre unique sur leur perception du monde. Son écriture plonge dans une réalité de couleurs, de motifs et de sons désorientants, où l'extérieur se confond souvent avec les sensations internes. Williams détaille la lutte entre le besoin de connexion et la crainte du contact physique, ainsi que des comportements d'auto-apaisement comme moyen d'affirmer sa propre existence. Sa prose est courageuse, analytique et dénuée d'apitoiement sur soi, révélant la complexité de l'autisme et son profond impact sur la vie d'un individu.
This book takes us deeper into Williams' journey. She recounts the funny, sometimes harrowing awakenings arising from sessions with a cognitive psychologist. We travel with her in her breakthroughs in working with autistic children and adults like her, as she finally finds a way of 'simply being' among others, without selling out who she really is.
A magnificent, moving ecological fable, perfect for fans of Annihilation and Oryx & Crake.
This book, written by an autistic person for people with autism and related disorders, carers, and the professionals who work with them, is a practical handbook to understanding, living with and working with autism. It shows clearly how the behaviours associated with autism can have a range of different causes.
In the acclaimed sequel to Nobody Nowhere--in which Donna Williams gives readers a guided tour of life with autism--Williams explores the four years since her diagnosis and her attempts to leave her "world under glass" and live normally. NPR sponsorship.
Labeled deaf, retarded, disturbed and insane, Donna Williams lived in a world of her own. Alternating between rigid hostility and extroversion, she waged what she termed her "war against the world." She existed in a dreamlike state, parroting the voices of those around her in the hope that they would leave her alone. Few people understood her, least of all Donna helself. It was not until the age of twenty-five that Donna discovered the word- autism- that would at last give her the opportunity to understand herself and begin to build a bridge to join the world as most know it. "Nobody Nowhere, Donna Williams' extraordinary autobiography, is her heroic attempt to come to terms with autism. This eloquent memoir reveals a fierce intelligence, great creativity and much humour. It will shatter many myths and misconceptions. The poetic sensibility and extraordinary insights of "Nobody Nowhere make it inspiring reading for everyone. "From the Trade Paperback edition.