Although labeled, at times, deaf, retarded, or disturbed, Donna Williams is autistic- afflicted by a baffling condition of heightened sensory perception that imprisons the sufferer in a private, almost hallucinatory universes of patterns and colors.  This is Donna's story in her own words- a haunting, courageous memoir of the titanic struggles she has endured in her quest to merge "my world" with "the world."