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The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 219 pages and is available in paperback format. She gives plausible explanations for common autistic behaviors, and offers some fasincating hypotheses for causes and contributing factors for this syndrome. Breaking free from the world of autism 1994, like colour to. Click link bellow and free register to download ebook. Donna williams this book offers a firsthand portrayal of what it is like to grow up and live as an adult with autism.
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Feb 01, 1994 in her book nobody nowhere, an autobiography, donna williams describes how the autistic withdraw from a threatening reality into a private utopia of kaleidoscopic colors. In 1992, williams published her first book, an autobiographical account titled nobody nowhere. During the rest of her childhood, she was tested multiple times for deafness and labelled as disturbed. In the acclaimed sequel to nobody nowhere in which donna williams gives readers a guided tour of life with autism williams explores the four years since her diagnosis and her attempts to leave her world under glass and live normally.
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