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Nobody Nowhere: The remarkable autobiography of an autistic girl
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Labelled deaf, abnormal, nut, retard, spastic, mental, disturbed, moron, blonk, crazy, impenetrable, weird, wild and insane, Donna Williams lived in a world of her own. Alternating between rigid hostility and oblivious extroversion, she waged what she termed her war against 'the world'. She existed in a state of dream-like recession, withdrawn and viewing her incomprehensible surroundings from the security of a 'world under glass'. Few people understood her, least of all Donna herself, and she yearned to become 'normal'.
At the age of twenty-five, Donna discovered a word, a new label, which brought with it a handful of answers, a chance for forgiveness of both herself and others around her and hope for a sense of belogning: that word was autism.
Disturbing, moving eloquently written and immensely thought provoking, this is not just another professional's analytic commentary. Donna's personal account of her sturggle to come to terms with her conditions and to survive the suffering enforced by an unsympathetic, ignorant world, is a unique insight into the workings of an autistic mind, outlining the incomrephensible pain and tortuous inner turmoil as it has never before been revealed.
Labelled deaf, abnormal, nut, retard, spastic, mental, disturbed, moron, blonk, crazy, impenetrable, weird, wild and insane, Donna Williams lived in a world of her own. Alternating between rigid hostility and oblivious extroversion, she waged what she termed her war against 'the world'. She existed in a state of dream-like recession, withdrawn and viewing her incomprehensible surroundings from the security of a 'world under glass'. Few people understood her, least of all Donna herself, and she yearned to become 'normal'.
At the age of twenty-five, Donna discovered a word, a new label, which brought with it a handful of answers, a chance for forgiveness of both herself and others around her and hope for a sense of belogning: that word was autism.
Disturbing, moving eloquently written and immensely thought provoking, this is not just another professional's analytic commentary. Donna's personal account of her sturggle to come to terms with her conditions and to survive the suffering enforced by an unsympathetic, ignorant world, is a unique insight into the workings of an autistic mind, outlining the incomrephensible pain and tortuous inner turmoil as it has never before been revealed.
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