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Rudy Simone
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

Rudy Simone (pen name, Artemisia) is an American author of books on Asperger's Syndrome.

Published books

Her books have been translated into several languages.

• 22 Things a Woman Must Know if She loves a Man with Asperger's Syndrome (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2009) ISBN 978-1-84905-803-2
• 22 Things A Woman with Asperger's Wants her Partner to Know (Jessica Kingsley Publisher, 2012) ISBN 978-1-84905-883-4
• Asperger's on the Job Must-have Advice for People with Asperger's or High Functioning Autism, and their Employers, Educators, and Advocates (Future Horizons Publishing, 2010) ISBN 1935274090
• Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger's Syndrome (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010) ISBN 978-1-84905-826-1
• Orsath, an epic fantasy (2013)
• The A-Z of ASDs: Aunt Aspie’s Guide to Life (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016)
• Sex and the Single Aspie (Jessica Kingsley, 2018) written under the name Artemisia ISBN 978-1-78592-530-6

Self-identification

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. 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. 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.

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.

She changed her name in 2017 and now publishes under the pseudonym Artemisia.

Awards

Aspergirls won a Gold Award from the Independent Publishers Group in 2011, and Asperger's on the Job won Honorable Mention in ForeWord magazine's 2010 Book of the Year Awards.

References

1. Girls on the Spectrum: Q&A with the Author of Aspergirls Time December 27, 2011
2. Why I no longer identify myself as Aspie Rudy Simone December 4, 2014
3. "An American Aspie in Paris | Rudy's Rants". Archived from the original on February 7, 2016. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
4. "Meet Rudy Simone – Everyday Aspie". everydayaspie.wordpress.com. Archived from the original on August 13, 2016.
5. "Artemisia.space – artemisia Resources and Information".
6. "Independent Publisher: THE Voice of the Independent Publishing Industry". Independent Publisher – feature.
7. Kaavonia Hinton (August 5, 2010). "Book Review of Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome (9781849058261) — Foreword Reviews". Foreword Reviews.

External links

• Help 4 Aspergers at the Wayback Machine (archived 2020-02-20)

• Living people
• American self-help writers
• Autism activists
• Writers from New York (state)
• 21st-century American women writers
• 21st-century American non-fiction writers
• American women non-fiction writers