Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Aimee Shepherd
Aimee Shepherd a doctoral student at Leeds Beckett University, Leeds School of Art takes us through her latest research project
Over the last three years I have been studying the comic book preferences of autistic participants to develop an art style for the graphic memoir I developed. The graphic memoir depicts the experiences I had before my autism diagnosis when I was twenty-eight, and touches upon issues that autistic women go through throughout their lifetimes. With this project I hoped to present information in a way that was accessible, demonstrate the damage a lack of an early diagnosis can do, and to create awareness of the issues surrounding autistic women. (Cover)