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Donna Williams

Edinburgh 16th of September 7-9pm

Venue: St George's West Church
58 Shandwick Pl
Edinburgh, EH2 4RT
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Donna Williams Edinburgh

 

Donna Williams was born in Australia in 1963.  She was assessed at age 2 as psychotic, then labeled disturbed throughout childhood before being formally diagnosed as autistic in adulthood in 1990.  Donna grew up with ‘dysfunctional language’ and came to understand sentences around the age of nine and by age 13 could speak in litanies.  She failed early secondary education, leaving at age 15 after 4 high schools.  She entered the workforce for three years and encountered unemployment and homelessness before returning to education and gaining an Honours Degree in Sociology, a degree in Linguistics and a postgraduate Diploma in Education.

Donna lives with a degree of both meaning deafness and meaning blindness (agnosia) and, unlike the 65% of the general population who ‘think in pictures’, describes herself as a systems and kinaesthetic and musical thinker for whom systems, movement, pattern, theme and feel and give definition to her world.  As someone challenged with gut, immune and metabolic disorders, she is well known for raising wide public awareness regarding health as well as sensory perceptual, language processing and anxiety related issues effecting people on the autistic spectrum.

As well as being an artist, sculptor, composer and screenwriter, she is also an internationally best-selling author with 9 published books in the field of Autism including four text books.  Her first of four autobiographical works, Nobody Nowhere, spent 15 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List and has been published in over 20 languages and is under option by a Hollywood film company.  One of the most well known people with autism in the world, Donna is a renowned international public speaker, a qualified teacher and worked as an autism consultant since 1995.  

Donna lives in Australia with her husband Chris Samuel where they established a free international self employment and networking service for people on the autistic spectrum at http://www.auties.org.  Her website has online galleries featuring her paintings and sculptures at http://www.donnawilliams.net

 

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