Somebody Somewhere

This is the second volume of Donna Williams’ autobiography in which she recounts the story of her struggle with autism. Taking up the thread where “Nobody Nowhere: The Remarkable Autobiography of an Autistic Girl” left off, this volume tells of her ongoing battle to overcome the compulsions and obsessions of autism, and her increasingly successful efforts to lead a normal life. The third volume, “Like Colour to the Blind: Soul Searching and Soul Finding” continues the story.

Author Biography

Donna Williams was born in Australia in 1963 and raised in a working-class inner-city area in Australia. She grew up hearing words such as ‘deaf’, ‘disturbed’, ‘crazy’ and ‘spastic’, and like many able people with autism born in the 1960s and earlier, she wasn’t formally diagnosed with autism until adulthood. As well as writing, composing, painting and sculpting, she lectures and runs workshops on autism all around the world. Donna is the author of four autobiographies – Nobody Nowhere, Somebody Somewhere, Like Colour to the Blind and Everyday Heaven – along with several other books on autism, Autism and Sensing, Autism: An Inside-Out Approach, Exposure Anxiety, The Jumbled Jigsaw (forthcoming) and a collection of her poetry, Not Just Anything: A Collection of Thoughts on Paper. These books are also published by and available from Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Her first international best-selling autobiography, Nobody Nowhere, is currently under option by a Hollywood film company. After 13 years in the UK, she now lives back in Australia with her husband Chris.