Aimée Shepherd
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I’m an Autistic Writer, Artist and PhD Candidate from the UK. Creating is something I'm passionate about, and writing about my experiences of being an Autistic woman is something I feel is important.
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Autism in Education
I didn't really enjoy education until I entered University, I found from the ages of eight to nineteen that people around me were not sincere, and that bothered me. Especially as someone who is upfront with people right from the get-go. I didn't recieve a diagnosis for my autism until I was twenty-eight, therefore I spent a lot of the time feeling like I was Quozzy Modo. Someone who people tolerated, but did not officially see. At the time I was still trying to tolerate myself. I developed depression when I was fifteen, was bullied all the way through primary and secondary school, and the people who I thought were my friends in college had one of their boyfriends text me pretending they were interested in a romantic relationship with me. I was humiliated when one of them told me that they would sit in class laughing at the messages when I wasn't around, and the self-confidence and the trust I had built, after two years of being so-called-friends with these people, dissolved. Like a light switch. Once the course was over I left and went on with my life. I haven't seen them all since.
By Aimée Shepherd5 years ago in Education
Autism in Love
I’m by no means an expert on relationships. I’m a 30 year old autistic woman living with her parents because living alone impacts her mental health. Here I have company even when I’m alone due to the two fluffy dogs that like to lay all over me during my workday.
By Aimée Shepherd5 years ago in Humans
