Born: Established: 1963 Melbourne, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: 22 Apr 2017
Gender:
Female
Expatriate
assertion
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Most Referenced Works
Notes
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Additional works:
- Autism: An Inside Out Approach (1996)
- The Jumbled Jigsaw (2005)
- Autism and Sensing: The Unlost Instinct (1998)
- Exposure Anxiety: The Invisible Cage Of Involuntary Self Protection Responses (2003)
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Awards for Works
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Nobody Nowhere
London
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Doubleday
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1992
Z941933
1992
single work
autobiography
The first of four books in Donna's autie-biographical series, Nobody Nowhere is disturbing, eloquent and ticklishly funny. It is an account of a soul of someone who lived the word 'autism' and survived abuse, trauma, neglect, exploitation despite intense inner chaos and incomprehension.
Born into a 1960s dysfunctional underclass family rife with criminality, substance abuse and domestic violence, Donna starts out as a two year old diagnosed as psychotic at age 2, and grows up treated as mad, backward and disturbed and the child who 'will never be able to tell'. But gaining functional speech by late childhood, Donna leaves home by 8 years old and is homeless by her teens in an exploitative world that can no more understand her than she can her users and abusers. Nobody Nowhere is an epic story of survival against all odds.
(Source: author's website)
- 1993 shortlisted NBC Banjo Awards — NBC Banjo Award for Non-Fiction
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