Nobody Nowhere is an account of the soul of someone who lived the word 'autism' and survived in an unsympathetic environment despite intense inner chaos and incomprehension. It describes how, against the odds, Donna came to live independently, achieve a place at university, and write this remarkable autobiography.
Nobody Nowhere is an account of the soul of someone who lived the word 'autism' and survived in an unsympathetic environment despite intense inner chaos and incomprehension. It describes how, against the odds, Donna came to live independently, achieve a place at university, and write this remarkable autobiography.
Donna Williams was born in Australia in 1963 and raised in a working-class inner-city area in Australia. She grew up hearing words such as `deaf', `disturbed', `crazy' and `spastic', and like many able people with autism born in the 1960s and earlier, she was wasn't formally diagnosed with autism until adulthood. As well as writing, composing, painting and sculpting, she lectured and ran workshops on autism all around the world.
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Track Listing: 1. Sometimes. 2. Stormy Weather. 3. Nobody Nowhere. 4. Too Sensitive. 5. Stray Children. 6. Shadows. 7. Beyond the When. 8. Shoes. 9. Enemy Lines. 10. Today Starts Now. 11. Ocean Deep. 12. Just a Little Bit of Time. 13. Movin On. 14. Still Awake.