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"This is a story of two battles, a battle to keep out 'the world' and a battle to join it."

She inhabits a place of chaos, cacophony, and dancing light--where physical contact is painful and sights and sounds have no meaning. Although labeled, at times, deaf, retarded, or disturbed, Donna Williams is autistic--afflicted by a baffling condition of heightened sensory perception that imprisons the sufferer in a private, almost hallucinatory universe of patterns and colors. Nobody Nowhere is Donna's story in her own words--a haunting, courageous memoir of the titanic struggles she has endured in her quest to merge "my world" with "the world."

Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin

Like Colour to the Blind by Donna Williams

The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida

Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet

Wish I Could Be There by Allen Shawn

Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison

Atypical by Jesse A. Saperstein

A Friend Like Henry by Nuala Gardner

Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden

My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall

What Remains by Carole Radziwill

Let Me Finish by Roger Angell

Elsewhere by Richard Russo

Myself When Young by Daphne Du Maurier

Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck

Somebody Somewhere by Donna Williams

Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Darkness Visible by William Styron

The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn R. Saks