No, in fact they deliberately chose to do as little editting as possible as the train of thought, the language structure and language use was so unusual at that time and it was only the second Autie-biography published in the English language so they wanted it left as 'untouched' as possible.

Nobody Nowhere was never intended for publishing. If you read the later books you find that out. In Somebody Somewhere I write about how it got 'accidentally' published, that it was only ever intended as a disclosure to a psychiatrist in seeking to know 'what kind of mad I was'. Hence it is not written like a book that considers the audience and the whole point was to get help, not to impress anyone with my thoughtfulness or ponderings about other people, just tell as much as I could about what was going on for me so someone could understand what at that time was an unnamed condition.

Not me! It wasn't originally published with that subtitle at all! The first publication had the subtitle 'The sequel to the international bestseller Nobody Nowhere'. It was the American publishers and publicist there who changed it for the American market. After that it didn't come back off. Things like covers were 'ran by me for approval' but I was also told of why others thought these were 'good ideas'.

Agoraphobia, Social Phobia, Bipolar, OCD, Tourettes, Immune Deficiency are all things I choose to go to war on, meaning I won't let these things rob me of freedom, health, safety. Yet ALL of these things went undiagnosed under the label of Autism, so until I knew WHICH parts of my 'Autism' I wanted to bring into a manageable level, I saw myself at war with what others had diagnosed my 'Autism'. I was not at war with being sensing or mono-track in an interpretive multi-tracker's world. I was not at war with meaning deafness, meaning blindness, processing delay or the tumbling effects of jumbled processing. Sure, I didn't mind strategies to make them easier to manage and help me be more fully able to handle independent living (there are still challenges), but no, I was not at war with all aspects of my Autism and many, it is clear, I celebrated and identify with as part of me, but no, I don't see mood, anxiety, compulsive disorders or immune deficiency as integral to my selfhood... I'm more than these things. I've been cited as saying I'm at war with Autism and this has been equated with being at war with 'Autistics' which seems insane to me as I care deeply for people, and many of them are Autie Spectrum people including probably my late grandmother and father. So to cite any person out of context without fully understanding what they really mean and assuming wrongly they are at war with autistics is absolutely not valid.

Doctors, psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists and teachers have all worked as consultants. In addition to being an Author, I am a formally qualified teacher. Also much of my advice is on how to adapt a non-Autistic environment to make life more respectful and user friendly for Autism Spectrum People in a world that often doesn't fit them on so many levels. If I come across people on the spectrum with untreated co-morbid conditions that risk their freedom, safety or health at a serious level I will point them in the direction of help for those things which is the humane thing to do for any fellow human being regardless of label and this doesn't mean I strive for 'cure'. I'm a teacher, not a doctor, not a psychiatrist, not a psychologist. Last time I checked teachers didn't seek cures, but only to facilitate and to help.