Nobody Nowhere - The Remarkable Autobiography of an Autistic Girl - Grand Format

Donna Williams was a child with more labels than a jam-jar : deaf, wild, disturbed, stupid, insane... She lived within herself, her own world her foreground, ours a background she only visited. Isolated from her self and from the outside world, Donna was, in her words, a Nobody Nowhere. She swung violently between these two worlds, battling to join our world and, simultaneously, to keep it out. Unable to connect with the external world beyond stored scripts and repertoires, she lived as a ghost with a body, a patchwork of the social images which bombarded her.
Intact but detached from the seemingly incomprehensible world around her, she lived in what she called 'a world under glass'. Nobody Nowhere is disturbing, eloquent and ticklishly funny : it is an account of the soul of someone who lived the word 'autism' and survived in an unsympathetic environment despite intense inner chaos and incomprehension. It describes how, against the odds, Donna came to live independently, achieve a place at university, and write this remarkable autobiography.
Now an international bestseller sold in over twenty languages throughout the world, this book will stay with you as one of the most exceptional works you will ever read.