Rudy Simone | |
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 Rudy Simone | |
| Pen name | Artemisia |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Subject | Asperger's Syndrome |
| Notable works | Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger's Syndrome |
| Notable awards | Gold Award from the Independent Publishers Group |
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| Official music website: Rudy Simone | |
Rudy Simone (pen name, Artemisia) is an American author of books on Asperger's Syndrome.
She has been interviewed by The New York Times , TIME and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Rudy has lectured at autism and Asperger conferences in Britain. [5]
Her books have been translated into several languages.
She has also penned the forewords to Asperger's in Pink and The Aspie Teen Survival Guide. [6] [7]
In 2011 Simone told Time Magazine that she initially self diagnosed with Aspergers after failing to find a doctor within 500 miles of where she lived who would believe her. [8] In a December 2014 blog Simone wrote that between her writing and treatment as well as dietary changes, her symptoms had diminished to the point she did not feel she qualified as a person on the spectrum. [9] However, she later stated she still considers herself to be autistic, and most recently has been working in France to reform the treatment of people with autism in that country. [10]
On August 12, 2016, she gave an interview on the Everyday Aspie website where she explained that her self-diagnosis was not officially confirmed and she did not feel the need to be evaluated. [11]
She changed her name in 2017 and now publishes under the pseudonym Artemisia. [12]
Aspergirls won a Gold Award from the Independent Publishers Group in 2011, [13] and Asperger's on the Job won Honorable Mention in ForeWord magazine's 2010 Book of the Year Awards. [14]
Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's, is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. The syndrome is no longer recognized as a diagnosis in itself, having been merged with other conditions into autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It was considered to differ from other diagnoses that were merged into ASD by relatively unimpaired spoken language and intelligence.
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Pretending to Be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome is a book written by Liane Holliday Willey, published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, that offers insight into the experience of living with Asperger's syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulties with social interaction and communication, as well as repetitive behaviors and interests. The book was first published in 1999 and has since been updated, in 2014, with an additional 15 years of reflection by the author on living with Asperger's syndrome.
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