Film Hatch Media Shows Off a Unique Combination of Words and Art

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“The Outside in View of Uncommon Bostonian” is like a wonderful blog you can bring and open anywhere, even without the internet. The book is creative non-fiction, featuring Yvonne Christian’s words and artwork after she was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome in 2002. She became a volunteer blogger for a daily newspaper a few years after her diagnosis, and her writings were frequently reproduced in their print editions. Unfortunately, the newspaper was forced to close after its financiers opted not to continue funding it.

Yvonne then decided to compile all of her blog postings into a book, along with essays and paintings. The result showcases her writing and artistic abilities while also sharing her message about her career problems and emotional abuse. It also demonstrates her enthusiasm for pop culture.

The need for a better and clearer explanation of people’s interactions and decisions is a recurring theme. Anyone reading this who is not autistic should learn from the very individual who found the courage to share her personal experiences as a black Uncommon Bostonian suffering from autism.

Yvonne Christian’s book is informative yet also enjoyable for aspiring artists, bloggers, and anyone with similar experience as the writer.

“The Outside in View of Uncommon Bostonian: What an Autistic Black Woman Sees”
Written by Yvonne Christian
Published by BookBaby
Published Date: March 12, 2017
Paperback: $15.00

About the Author
Born in Washington, DC, during the mid-1960s, Yvonne Christian grew up in the suburbs of Maryland and attended public school. Unbeknownst to her family, teachers, and fellow students, Yvonne was undiagnosed autistic child who had many sensory issues and very sensitive emotional feelings. She had many meltdowns that everyone labeled her as different and prompted many people to bully her without mercy. Although they thought they were trying to help Yvonne, her parents and her older siblings bully her too hoping she would just “toughen up.” Actually, it only ended up with them having a very difficult relationship with her.

After graduating high school in 1982, Yvonne went to Boston and attended Emerson College. The culture of the college were more accepting of her. She did well at Emerson and graduated in 1986 with a disc jockey job just outside of Boston. However, the general manager who promised to pay her a salary lied to her. This led her down a path of problems with employment and relationships. Yvonne was and still is interested in being a writer and an artist (being a disc jockey was never her idea).

In 2002, Yvonne went to a doctor and was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome (an autism spectrum disorder) and Non-Verbal Learning Disorder. Then, after she was diagnosed with Sleep Apnea in July 2005, she started her first blog, Outside In, and then in August 2007, she joined the Boston Now Newspaper as a volunteer blogger and named her newspaper blog after her pen name Uncommon Bostonian. The newspaper printed many of her posts in their newspaper until their investors decided to end the newspaper in April 2008.

Encouraged by her fellow autistic friends, Yvonne decided to put the posts she made with the newspaper blog into a book with her personal essays and artwork and put the planned memoir she wanted to write on the back burner. She had wanted to write a memoir long before she found out that she was autistic.

In December 2008, Yvonne joined a writers group called Writers Anonymous that met weekly at the Sevens Pub in Boston. In August 2011, that group published a book called Seven At The Sevens, a collection of seven word memoirs, under their pen names. Yvonne was also a contributor (personal essay and art) for the book, All The Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism by The Autism Women’s Network that was published in 2017.

In March 2017, Yvonne published her book, “The Outside In View of Uncommon Bostonian: What An Autistic Black Woman Sees.” Currently, she is planning to write a mystery novel and a memoir.

Contact Information

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