Books Details
Author : Donna Williams Pages : 192 pages Publisher : Jessica
Kingsley Publishers Language : eng ISBN-10 : 1853027189 ISBN-13
: 9781853027185
Books Descriptions
Donna Williams was a child with more labels than a jam-jar:
deaf, wild disturbed, stupid insane... She lived within
herself, her own world her foreground, ours a background she
only visited. Isolated from her self and from the outside
world, Donna was, in her words, a Nobody Nowhere. She swung
violently between these two worlds, battling to join our world
and, simultaneously, to keep it out. Abandoned from all
connection to the self within her, she lived as a ghost with a
body, a patchwork of the images which bombarded her. Intact but
detached from the seemingly incomprehensible world around her,
she lived in what she called 'a world under glass`.After
twenty-five years of being misunderstood, and unable to
understand herself, Donna stumbled upon the word 'autism': a
label, but one which held up a mirror and made sense of her
life and struggles, and gave her a chance to finally forgive
both herself and those around her.Nobody Nowhere is disturbing,
eloquent and ticklishly funny: it
