Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism

by Donna Williams (Author)

• Prizes: ','1','ChildrenBookAge: ','Book Overview: Sequel to the international bestseller Nobody Nowhere takes us through the next phase of Williams\' journey','This book deserves every superlative a reviewer can muster.
  -The Globe and Mail
  To be able to do what [Donna Williams] has done, by age 27, and to write about it so poignantly and so articulately is to function on a higher level than most \'normal\' folk achieve in a lifetime.
  -Boston Globe
  By illuminating her own unique perceptions, she allows us to understand our own perceptions as never before...And oh, can she write.
  -The New York Times Review of Books
  The artistically gifted Williams continues to build a bridge between \'my\' world and \'the\'world.
  -Publishers Weekly
  Somebody Somewhere...provides a shining light into the dark mystery of autism.
  -Detroit Free Press','Donna Williams was born in Australia in 1963. She was assessed at age two as psychotic, labeled disturbed and tested for deafness throughout childhood before being diagnosed as autistic in 1990. She was an international best-selling author with nine published books, an artist, singer-songwriter and screenwriter. One of the most well known people with autism in the world, Donna was a renowned international public speaker, a qualified teacher and worked as an autism consultant.');">

  New

  Paperback
  1998

  $17.71

  The sequel to the powerful international bestseller Nobody Nowhere, Somebody Somewhere takes us deeper into Donna Williams' Journey into the world. Her war against it is finally over, but the pieces of her life lie scattered around her. Donna recounts the often funny, sometimes harrowing awakenings arising from sessions with a cognitive psychologist, who helps her understand what she has been through and make sense of her sensory problems, information overload and 'shutdowns'. We travel with her in her breakthroughs in working with autistic children and other adults like herself, as she finally finds a way of belonging and 'simply being' among others, without selling out who she really is. Somebody Somewhere continues Donna's story in her uniquely poignant yet humorous voice.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1994

  $4.17

  In Nobody Nowhere Donna Williams described her life with autism - a life dominated by disembodied pattern, sound, colour and movement, cut off from the incomprehensible actions of others. Now she tells of the four years since the diagnosis for which she had waited 25 years, and her attempts to leave her world under glass and live normally . Donna's decision to leave the comforting isolation of her world has brought both agonies and rewards. She recounts intensive sessions with her therapist, in which she learnt devastating truths behind her misconceptions of the real world; her breakthroughs teaching autistic children; the pain and joy of recognizing for the first time her own emotions; and how she came to learn the pleasure of communicating with others in friendship.