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Loading... Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism (1994)by Donna Williams
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Donna was severely abused as a child, which may have caused many of her brain problems, or which may have resulted from her brain problem's and her mother's inability to cope with those problems and related behaviors. Throughout the book (and in later books) she is hardly ever, if at all, properly cared for, and almost never even supervised. She never could read people or situations and had no idea of the horrible dangers she put herself in; it's amazing that she avoided those dangers at all sometimes, but sometimes she didn't, and ended up raped or in several long-term abusive boyfriend relationships.
Surely this woman has issues; her difficulties arising from autism were only compounded exponentially by the neglect and abuse she received from the world around her.
The story is so horrific at times that one begins to wonder.
One began to wonder a great deal during Somebody Somewhere. I read no further than this book and have no interest in the rest of the series.