Donna Williams

Exposure Anxiety - The Invisible Cage (eBook, ePUB)

An Exploration of Self-Protection Responses in the Autism Spectrum and Beyond

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Exposure anxiety is increasingly understood as a crippling condition affecting a high proportion of people on the autism spectrum. To many it is an invisible cage, leaving the person suffering from it aware, but buried alive in their own involuntary responses and isolation. Exposure Anxiety: The Invisible Cage describes the condition and its underlying physiological causes, and presents a range of approaches and strategies that can be used to combat it. Based on personal experience, the book shows how people with autism can be shown how to emerge from the stranglehold of exposure anxiety and develop their individuality.

It progressively shapes the individual torn between experiencing it as the sanctuary and the prison. Exposure Anxiety makes it hard to stand noticing you are noticing. It can make love a form of torture, repel you from the sound of your own voice, make you meaning deaf to your own words and those of others and compel you to avoid, divert from or retaliate against the very things that which most have the power to reach you. Exposure Anxiety progressively co-opts the identity of the person as separate to the condition or it leaves them aware but buried alive in their own involuntary responses and isolation. Exposure Anxiety is the involuntary social-emotional self-protection response that needs no enemy. It turns the world upside-down, makes no yes and yes no and co-opts and defies conventional, non-autistic teaching techniques.

Exposure Anxiety has many faces. By defeating it at its own game, Donna demonstrates how the person can progressively be inspired to fight for themselves and attempt to emerge, from the undercurrent, as the tide.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846423574
• Artikelnr.: 38427513

Autorenporträt

Donna Williams was born in Australia in 1963. She was assessed at age two as psychotic, labelled disturbed and tested for deafness throughout childhood before being diagnosed as autistic in 1990. She was an internationally best-selling author with nine published books, an artist, singer-songwriter and screenwriter. One of the most well-known people with autism in the world, Donna was a renowned international public speaker, a qualified teacher and worked as an autism consultant.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Invisible Cage. Section 1 - The Mechanics: Faces of
Exposure Anxiety. Exposure Anxiety and consciousness. Exposure Anxiety and
intelligence. Exposure Anxiety and will. Exposure Anxiety and sensory
flooding. Exposure Anxiety, overload, and information processing. Section 2
- Relationship to Self: Exposure Anxiety and body. Exposure Anxiety and
emotional expression. Exposure Anxiety and sense of self. Exposure Anxiety
and detachment. Exposure Anxiety and empathy. Exposure Anxiety and insight.
Exposure Anxiety and personality. Exposure Anxiety and identity. Section 3
- Relationship to Others: Exposure Anxiety and the world. Exposure Anxiety
and respect. Exposure Anxiety and trust. Exposure Anxiety and love. Section
4 - the Development of a Social Face: Being 'social': and the nature of
'simply being'. Exposure Anxiety and behaviour. Exposure Anxiety and
language. Exposure Anxiety and friendship. Section 5 - Environment:
Exposure Anxiety at home. Exposure Anxiety at school. Exposure Anxiety in
the playground. Exposure Anxiety and work. Exposure Anxiety and independent
living. Exposure Anxiety and adult relationships. Section 6. Ways forward.
References. Index.