AURA
Always Unique
Resilient Authentic
Kim's info doesn't always come out right on a mobile. Please
go to other devices. She's very creative coming up with
solutions. She's very blessed has beautiful souls who
have come into her life. Lifting her spirits to a
higher vibration Bring withit all this energy of
Peace🕊Light 💫 Love 💖 Serenity 🪷
She Does Have
In The Life of An Autistic
Woman Born 1950 London England. What An Extraordinary
Life. How Did She Survive?
A Mask of Disguises: Her Wigs, Hair Piece, False Eyelashes and Makeup, When in the Middle 60s and part of the 70s in London England . She Became a Chameleon So She Could Fit In and She Didn't Realize that's What She was Doing and Became Very Good By Putting on a Front Becoming Someone Else.
Dan Got in Touch with Kim when She First
put Her videos on YouTube in 2011 and 2012
PUBLISHED FEB 15 2012
Part of her novel
back up again
Discovering More
About Her Syndrome
Since publishing her videos she's discovered a lot more about her syndrome and her life, writing and researching and it's not always been easy because of her learning difficulties. She never gave up that was her British upbringing, you just get on with it. The positive in all that she's discovered she knows herself better and decided to call her syndrome Aura. It suited her creative abilities and outgoing personality which can be extremely exhausting sometimes, putting on a front. She has learned she can't do the things she was able to do and you get to a stage in your life you don’t want to and have to slow down. When finding out she had Asperger's and was properly diagnosed in her 60s. Back in the late 90s she was insulted when her husband said she had high functioning autism. She was very indignant "I do not" she said, the only person back then who was known was Temple Grandin and she was nothing like this amazing woman she had seen on 60 minutes. She loved makeup fashion, looking glamorous and she had done pretty well, owning two successful businesses in the 80s. She didn't realize she was masking, covering up her anxieties and insecurities to try and fit in and a lot of this was to do with her childhood, bullying and things that happened to her which were out of her control. That's why she used to drink socially to make her feel more comfortable. At work it was different she was focusing on things she was interested in and had learned coping skills. The first thing she taught herself looking through the mirror to talk to clients when starting her hairdressing apprenticeship at the department store in Harrow Middelsex north west of London in 1965.
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Her mum had done an amazing job, knowing her daughter had an artistic flair she put her in hairdressing. Wanting her daughter to feel accepted and feel normal, whatever that is? focused on her looks, etiquette and manners but she was certainly different. At fifteen wearing wigs and a lot of makeup and false eyelashes, even being extremely shy she had that aura about her. She was trying to hide behind her mask of disguises and being different she was taken to all those amazing places in the swinging 60s where the rich and famous went. Even though she was a working class girl and walked to the beat of her own drum especially when she was young, completely oblivious how others saw her. She could come across as a snob because of her shyness and being pretty but it was her protection. The fellas who would ask her out were a lot older than her and drove flashy cars and took her to great places. She preferred it that way and they treated her better and more mature but of course you always got the bloody jerks and as her mum would say the arrogant sods and she met a few of them. When she blossomed she was never without a date and most of the time wasn’t interested in them, it was just to get out of the house. She was fine going to clubs by herself at the age of sixteen on the other side of London she was never one to have girls to go with and a lot of the time they would be mean so why would she want to be with them? Till she met this beautiful soul Linda when working at the Regent Palace hotel in the big city of London. She was like a sister she always wanted and her parents ran a pub in the East-end of London.
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First time Brian Aris took her photo
for Daily Mirror Newspaper.
He seemed to like her looks and
took many other pictures of her
Test shot Brian Aris took
he seemed to like her look
The Sex Symbol She Liked To Copy
In the middle sixties seeing this beautiful sex symbol on telly she wanted to look like her. She did have the big doe brown eyes and pouty lips, so this is who she was going to be for a while and it suited her well. She had other characters she copied because her sister in law told her she remembers an incident a fella had come to take her out and she said her demeanor changed just like that and started talking posh. She was good at mimicking others and their voices watching the television and going to the flicks. I suppose that's how she survived living in this unfamiliar world of hers.
Photo Taken Before her Twentieth Birthday
The first time Brian took her photo after seeing her with her mother in London and asked if he could take her picture for the Daily Mirror Newspaper. He came to see her where she was working at the Regent Palace in her lunch hour. Here's the test shot a park near by Soho to see how she came across in front of the camera. She remembers she wore a red crocheted jumper and black trousers that day. He liked what he saw and she became the page 3 girl April 28th 1970 she had just turned 20. Still till wearing her wigs, lots of makeup and of course her false eyelashes, her mask of disguises. Knowing Brian before he became famous and he took many photos of her, seem to like her look. In 1971 he got her a great job a photo shut in a well known magazine and had to turn it down. It coursed her a lot of anxieties all these secrets she could revile. She knows things would have turned out different but that wan't her life path. As she has said God had other plans for this young autistic girl.
Photo Brian Aris in the newspaper
She Walked Away From Modelling
The last photo Brian Aris took of her was in 1971 the caption for the photo was Cheeky! in the Daily Mirror newspaper. Wow! she cannot believe it's nearly 48 years ago, how time flies. Her mother had cut the holes in her hot pants and the article started off: Well, cut out my shorts and call me cheeky. Her mum was one of a kind full of fun, she could tell some great jokes and was born before her time. She let her daughter be herself and never made her feel ashamed about her sexuality. In England in the 60s and 70s you saw some nudity of women on the telly, it was tastefully and creatively done. A woman's body is magnificent, beautiful, some men like their women fuller, others smaller, thinner. Society has become more accepting of different shapes and sizes in fashion magazines. That's a good thing as long as they are healthy and feel good about themselves. Health and the immune system are extremely important. Kim remembers Brian asking her the first time he took her photo if she could write some information about herself. She deflected, changed the subject then said later she would give it to him next time they met. Being able to mask she came across very confident but it was exhausting, all that she had to do to be able to survive living in this existence. She can see now how her life was mapped out for her and everything she went throught broughty her to this place she is today.
Brian wrote at the back of the photo
Photo Brian Aris. Story Jill Evens.
Kim Found The Picture of chris
Videos Autistic Girls Masking
Found these videos, Autistic girl talking about masking, a great example. She had no idea this is what she was doing to survive because there was no information like hers out there on autism. Most videos on Asperger's where about males they never talk about females back then liking makeup when she had put her video out in 2011.
These girls being into the arts: There are all shorts of us out there. who like makeup, and being glamorous or having their own style of fashion. They're more on the creative side like her having Aura. She thinks they would feel more comfortable with that name and would relate to this syndrome better. As she has said becoming a chameleon to fit it not realizing she stood out being different. That's what is so wonderful being an individuals as long as you are not hearting anyone being your truth authentic self.......
Aspie World with Dan who has Asperger's
A Great Fella SHE THOUGHT HE WAS From
SCOTLAND TO FIND OUT HE'S FROM WALES
Dan got in touch with her when she first publishing her videos on
YouTube. Unfortunately a little while later she took her website and
videos down because of what had happened was overwhelming.
The stress the pain she was feeling emotionally, physically,
psychologically. She lost trust and she shutdown as she has
said before you push through like she always has.
You brush yourself off and start all over again.
There she is Masking
On the Hill with the press corps always dressed up, well put together, very fashionable. Her black pillow box hat a feather on the top with a fine veil across her face. Her gray pinstriped suit with shoulder pads, black chiffon blouse with a ruffle at the front, four inch black heels and nylons. Everyone is in a line and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau walked by, he turned around and smiled at her and she smiled back. this was in the 80s.
STAR🌟SEEDS
When someone asks you what do you do? You are more than your job you have a soul a mulit-dimensional creature. For her she always wonder why she came here. Then the dream she had 2008 and asking her mother will she be with her one day? Fascinating what she is discovering taking her on this long journey the twists and turns learning, learning never stopping. What's so wonderful she started drawing Star🌟Seeds Angel Goddesses then Emperors had no idea where that came from. Of cause she was being guided. She's a Star🌟Seed her mum was different than any mother she knew of. She was led to Cynthia this beautiful soul who made Star🌟 Seed sculptors. She felt sad finding out Cynthia had left this planet. She knew she didn't have that much time here and connected to another hemisphere her Star🌟Seed family. Fascinating where she was being taken she could never have done this by herself. It is hard living here when you are not like others and know things others don't know....
Good Mental Health for Autistic Girls
Tony Attwood Extremely Entertaining
Every Autistic Person has to find what works for them to be able to function, no one is living their life. There's help out there not like in her day but she did very well, as she matured, under the circumstances if you don't know any better you just get on with it. She was properly diagnosed in her 60s, even though she knew she had this syndrome years before. Between 2010 and 2019 she was going through some very bad experiences in her life physically, emotionally and mentally. Then the medication she was put on for her migraines caused her a very bad reaction. Went to see her doctor and was diagnosed with the wrong disorder. Her doctor was kind enough to able to send her to the right professional person who worked with autism which she calls her syndrome Aura. She had stopped the medication right away when she got this terrible reaction, she wasn't herself crying and some other emotions she was feeling.
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Being so sensitive to her environment she doesn't do well on certain medications like antidepressants. Everyone is different, you have to find what works for you, it's extremely important. Thank goodness she was able to find the right medication that works for her migraines and it made a big difference in her life. Anyone who suffers with them knows how debilitating they can be in fact with any pain they may be going through. She did find the natural approach to help herself, in many ways, it doesn't mean she doesn't get stressed and overwhelmed sometimes. It's usually because she feels she doesn't have control over a situation, not getting the support she needs and cannot stand lying that triggers and upsets her tremendously. The reason why? She likes honesty and finding like minded souls on the same wavelength that helps, she has her good and not so good days.
What's comforting for her is writing her feelings out, having a wonderful imagination she can escape into her own Cosmic Surreal Existence. As she did as a young girl when feeling ostracized, bullied, taking things literally and not understanding her peers. Knowing she didn't fit in, so sensitive, a delicate being and only wanting love and kindness. This atmosphere around her feeling all the vibes closing in and being misunderstood. An energy, a wave of negativity of course one day she fought back for her dignity.