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Donna Williams, Nobody Nowhere

“This is a story of two battles, a battle to keep out ‘the world’ and a battle to join it.” She inhabits a place of chaos, cacophony, and dancing light–where physical contact is painful and sights and sounds have no meaning. Although labeled, at times, deaf, retarded, or disturbed, Donna Williams is autistic–afflicted by a baffling condition of heightened sensory perception that imprisons the sufferer in a private, almost hallucinatory universe of patterns and colors. Nobody Nowhere is Donna’s story in her own words–a haunting, courageous memoir of the titanic struggles she has endured in her quest to merge “my world” with “the world.”

Times Books, 1992.
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