No two people are the same, so why should treatments for autism be?

Donna Williams tells Micheál O’Mahony how she copes with autism.

Author, public speaker and autism consultant, Donna WIlliams describes autism as a “fruit salad” in which various components and differences combine to make no two people the same.

“To understand any person’s autism, you have to understand the pieces of the ‘fruit salad’ that came together to mentally develop, challenge or derail that particular person in a whole range of areas,” said the Australian, who has also been diagnosed with autism.