![]() ![]() GEORGIA: I had wanted to be an author ever since reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone at age seven. This busy, college-bound student took time out to give me insights on herself and the often misunderstood autistic condition which she proudly states does not define her anymore…ĮYE: Why share your personal diaries and drawings and turn them into a book? Now comfortable with her autism, she is using her real name for this interview. Georgia, now 18, takes the reader inside her unique mind as she struggles, stumbles, and succeeds to integrate into the “human” world. ![]() “As I put it together, I realized that my life’s experiences had real potential to help others understand autism and have compassion for autistic people.” Georgia Lyon ![]() After reading her book How To Be Human: Diary of an Autistic Girl ( ), I was struck by the courageous, honest, and often humorous way Georgia, using the pen name Florida Frenz, wrote and illustrated it. At three, she had been diagnosed with autism. By the time teen author Georgia Lyon was seven years old, she considered herself an alien in a human world. ![]()
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