No One Anywhere. The Amazing Autobiography of an Autistic Girl

In childhood, Donna Williams was called deaf, uncontrollable, mentally ill, backward, crazy…

She lived in her own world, a world of other people seemed full of dangers to her. For Donna, not only touches were unbearable, but even the friendly glances and feelings of people. It was even scarier for her to express her feelings and interests; she could only interact with the outside world via memorized phrases and ready-made scripts. She hid her "self," her true identity under the masks of fictional characters - socially acceptable but absolutely insensitive. Cut off from both the outside world and her own "self," Donna, in her own words, was "no one nowhere."

She painfully flitted between two worlds, struggling to fit into our world - and at the same time keeping away from it. Separated from our world, incomprehensible to her, she lived - as she herself says - "in a world under glass." "No One Anywhere" is a challenging book; anxious, touching, sometimes heavy, and sometimes funny. A story about the soul of a person who lived in the world of "autism" and survived - despite the hostile environment and the terrible inner chaos. This book describes how, overcoming obstacles, Donna learned to live independently, enrolled in university, graduated, and then wrote her remarkable autobiography. Subsequently, a sequel emerged - "Somebody Somewhere," which is still awaiting its translation into Russian. 

Now, Donna is the author of nine books that have become international bestsellers, an artist, a songwriter, a screenwriter. One of the most well-known people with autism in the world, Donna gives public lectures in different countries, works as a teacher, and since 1995 has been a consultant on autism. After reading this book, many of us will significantly reconsider our views on what constitutes mental "normality." . .