Autism And Sensing: The Unlost Instinct; Author: Williams, Donna; Paperback

Author: Williams, Donna
Paperback
131 pages
Published: April 1998
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1853026123

Expanding on themes of her previous book, Autism: An Inside-Out Approach, Donna Williams explains how the senses of a person with autism work, suggesting that they are 'stuck' at an early development stage common to everyone. She calls this the system of sensing, claiming that most people move on to the system of interpretation which enables them to make sense of the world. In doing so,as well as gaining the means of coping with the world, they lose various abilities which people with autism retain.Subtitled 'The Everything of Nothing', this is a book that will give a new perspective on the way we sense and relate to things both internal and external to ourselves. Subtitled 'The Everything of Nothing', this is a book that will give a new perspective on the way we sense and relate to things both internal and external to ourselves.Addresses the question of how people sense things, from the perspective of an autistic person. The author argues that perception passes through three stages, the sensory, the literal and the significant, and that people move far too quickly through the stages as they develop.