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Aimee Shepherd

Postgraduate researcher

Leeds School of Arts | LARC - Leeds Arts Research Centre

Aimee found the autism diagnostic process quite traumatic, there were no therapeutic service provided, and she felt infantilised. Aimee was given a pile of clinical leaflets and left to cope. Through a graphic memoir her project aimed to demonstrate the impact of a life lived without an autism diagnosis.

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About

In 2019 Aimee was diagnosed as Autistic. Suddenly, everything about her life, and herself, made sense but also not. So she turned to research, and dug around trying to find out everything she could about being an autistic woman. This was when she fell in love with research and decided to move into academia. Not only because of her passion for it, but because of the experiences she had. Aimee thought that an autistic woman's voice in the mix of voices already present could be valuable.

Over the years Aimee has worked alongside Autism charities to develop a magazine for the recently diagnosed autistic adult, due to the negative experience she had after her own diagnosis process. Aimee has created artwork for Leeds Autism Services, and currently works as a Research Artist for a collaborative project between Mind the Gap and York St Johns University, as well as conducting her own research for her PhD.

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Art Art and Wellbeing Autism

Project Description

My Undiagnosed Autistic Life: Sequential Art Storytelling and Empathetic Connections from an Autism Perspective.

The project aimed to create a form of autism education in a reader friendly way, rather than clinical leaflets etc. The graphic memoir art style was adapted from research data gathered from autistic participants who enjoy comic books, and analysed using a mixed method approached.