Donna Williams

Donna Williams ( born 1963 in Melbourne) is an Australian artist and writer. She is high functioning autistic.

Life and work

Her first book, I could disappear when you touch me is an autobiographical work, told in the Donna Williams story of her life from her childhood to her studies. The book was published in Britain in 1992. It has been translated into twenty languages ​​and a worldwide bestseller.

In her second autobiographical book If you love me, you stay far from my reports Donna Williams as they get their autistic characteristics in the handle and began an independent life in the UK.

Another theme of the books is their marked by violence and abuse childhood. The author sees the autism in their case, not least as a protective function against the traumatizing outside world. Meanwhile, a dissociative identity disorder was diagnosed with.

On December 9, 2000, she married Chris Samuel. Today she lives with her husband in Australia.

Her work is also found in scientific publications attention, such as in a presentation by Wolfgang Jantzen: "Three times in the history of special education has been worked out - I was lucky enough to be one of the three - it is not the so-called defect of physical injury, the disability brings, but brought forth by social isolation. "