From Ametrine Lavender
In his letter (5 November, p 33), Hans Proebsting writes: “Autism is what we have, not who we are.” Personally, as hypersensitivity is a major aspect of my autism, autism affects everything, from what I like to eat to what I wear, where I live to who I want to spend my time with.
There is no non-autistic person inside me waiting to get out, as autistic author Donna Williams discovered and wrote about in her book Nobody Nowhere.
Todmorden, West Yorkshire, UK
