MadamAmbassador

Just ten more, and I’ll have met my goal. (Hmm; I probably should’ve made this one of my “43 things”.) My motivation was so that I’ll look good on TV. I borrowed Dr. Lisa Sanders’ book The Perfect Fit Diet from my library in order to find out which of the three main categories of dieting MY body wanted to do, and if there were any snags I’d need to be aware of. Dr. Sanders’ book made it easy to be successful at this, and I’m happy and grateful.

I mentor so many young Aspies who want to be just like their NT classmates. Those same classmates are reading Harry Potter books, and wishing that they were different from most people. We are a neat bunch of people. We are the stop-and-smell-the-flowers people, the hey-the-emperor-has-no-clothes people, the what-if-we-did-it-this-way people. I give a talk on behalf of our people to NT audiences, in order to teach them how to speak our language. My first book, Larger Than Life: the Struggle to be Ten Feet Tall, which is coming out later this year, addresses Aspieness in Chapters 3 & 4. Associates of mine will be creating an Aspie community in the Pacific Northwest as a haven & getaway for our people. We are doing our own advocacy, on behalf of our people (see grasp.org), and changing the way the world sees us, treats us, and speaks about us. Being an Aspie is something we are; it is not a disease, disorder, or syndrome, although it is a handicap, in this industrialized society. I am an Aspie, and I am proud to be an Aspie.

My publisher is preparing my first and second books for print, as I type this. One is a non-fiction book on philosophy & interpersonal communication for high-school & college students. (The amazon photo of me was taken for the cover spine; it’ll have the outfit’s pattern photoshopped out, and a sword photoshopped into my right hand. The other photo in my gallery is actually my publicity photo.) My second book is a fictional, illustrated fairy-tale for grown-ups. Artists are competing March 2006 to see who gets to do the illustrations. Of course, I’m working on my next book(s).