þÿ<html> <title>Asperger Women Association</title> <style type="text/css">{ } body { scrollbar-arrow-color: #FFFFC1; scrollbar-base-color: #54B7B7; scrollbar-face-color: #54B7B7; scrollbar-highlight-color: #FFFFC1; scrollbar-shadow-color: #56A5AF; scrollbar-3dlight-color: #54B7B7; scrollbar-track-color: #54B7B7; scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #56A5AF; } .head{ background: #4598A5; border-bottom:0px dashed #54B7B7; color:#FFFFC1; font-weight:none; font-size:12pt; font-family:century gothic; text-align:center; width:100%} A:link {color: #FFFFC1; text-decoration: none;} A:visited {color: #FFFFC1; text-decoration: none;} A:active {color: #FFFFC1; text-decoration: none;} a:hover {color: #1780AF; text-decoration: underline overline;} body {background-color: #4598A5; background-image: url(); background-attachment: scroll; background-repeat: yes; font-family: times; color: #FFFFC1; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;} h1 {font-family: Times; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; font-style:italic; color: #FFFFC1; letter-spacing: 1px; font-weight: normal; border-bottom:1px solid #1780AF; text-align:left; line-height: 22px} </style> </head> <body> <img src="layout2.jpg" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:0"> <div style="position:absolute; top: 55px; left: 104px;overflow: auto; width: 550px; height: 50px; "> <center> <b> &middot; <a href="index.html">Home</a> &middot; <a href="contact.html">Contact</a> &middot; <a href="info.html">Info</a> &middot; <a href="articles.html">Articles</a> &middot; <a href="directors.html">Board of Directors</a> &middot; <a href="fashion.html">Fashion</a> &middot; <a href="members.html">Members Directory</a> &middot; <a href="links.html">Links</a> &middot; <a href="children.html">Children's Page</a> &middot; <a href="http://s4.invisionfree.com/Apserger_Women/">Forum</a> &middot; </b> </center> </div> <div style="position:absolute; top: 107; left: 56;overflow: auto; width: 789; height: 430; "> <h1>Donna & The Aspinauts set to Launch</h1> <b>Donna Williams, AWA Director, Australia</b><br><br> <img src="donna1.jpg"align="left">I'm known as 'the arty autie' and have been described as the embodiment of creative chaos. (<br><br> (I'm an international bestselling author with 9 published books. I've been a public presenter for ten years and a consultant in the field of developmental differences for 8 years. I'm a qualified teacher with a background in sociology but largely I'm a prolific, fairly mad artist. (<br><br> I was assessed as psychotic at age 2 in 1965 when I was also thought deaf. Although I had stored speech (delayed echolalia), I was still tested for deafness till late childhood by which time I was labeled disturbed. It was then that my meaning deafness became understood and I was helped to discover interpretive meaning and with it, functional language. I was diagnosed with autism in my 20s. (<br><br> (Today I'm a bestselling author, an artist, screenwriter, autism consultant and public speaker. I live with my wonderful husband Chris in the hills, in Australia. (<br><br> My website <a href="http://www.donnawilliams.net/ target=_blank">http://www.donnawilliams.net/</a> features my art works and books as well as articles and events and my blog. <br><br> I helped found the world's first international self employment site for people on the autistic spectrum at http://www.auties.org and anyone autism-friendly is welcome to help us build a more autism-friendly world for what is one of the most under-employed groups of people the world over. See you there....Donna Williams *) <br><br><br> </div> </body> </html>