Donna Williams wrote autobiographical books about autism, communication, sensory experience and the gap between outward behaviour and inner life. Nobody Nowhere recounts childhood, family conflict and her attempts to understand patterns of withdrawal, imitation and self-protection before receiving an autism diagnosis. Somebody Somewhere continues into adulthood and the process of developing relationships and a more stable sense of identity, while later books discuss communication, sensory processing and therapeutic approaches from her own perspective. Williams's prose is intensely first-person, fragmented in places and valuable primarily as one individual's account rather than a universal description of autism. Her work fits autism memoir, disability life writing and personal accounts of communication and sensory difference. Read more Less
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