Nobody Nowhere
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Nobody Nowhere

The Remarkable Autobiography of an Autistic Girl

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  2. English
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Nobody Nowhere

The Remarkable Autobiography of an Autistic Girl

About this book

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 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. It is now an international bestseller, sold in over 14 languages throughout the world. This is a book that will stay with you as one of the most exceptional works you will ever read.

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into
compulsive
avoidance,
diversion
or
retaliation
responses,
or
utilizing
detachment
in
order
to
function,
still
feel.
For
me,
though
my
mind
finally
knows
that
affection
and
kindness
will
not
kill
me,
my
emotional
responses
have
defied
this
logic,
telling
me
that
good
feelings
and
gentle
and
loving
touch
can
kill
me
or
at
the
very
least
cause
me
pain.
When
I
tried
to
ignore
this
message,
I
often
went
into
what
would
seem
to
be
a
state
of
shock,
where
what’s
coming
in
was
either
incomprehensible
or
had
no
significance.
This
state
often
led
to
my
emotions
committing
suicide,
leaving
me
without
physical
or
emotional
feeling
and
with
a
purely
robotic
mental
response
to
comply
–
if
that.
At
the
same
time
the
subconscious
will
to
escape
the
emotional
prison
of
Exposure
Anxiety
may
drive
some
autistic
people
toward
creative
genius.
Perhaps
they
find
a
bit
of
light
in
the
darkness,
and
clutch
at
it
as
though
it
were
the
way
out.
NOBODY
NOWHERE
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Table of contents

  1. Nobody Nowhere: The Remarkable Autobiography of an Autistic Girl
  2. Foreword
  3. Nobody Nowhere
  4. Epilogue