It was also interesting to illustrate with an autistic target audience in mind. We had a similar taste in colours and style and so the process was really smooth and natural. Sarah gave me a lot of freedom with style and ideas, but as she too has a design background she was really great at coming up with ideas and suggesting layouts. Through the research, I felt increasingly passionate about creating something that would spread awareness and also give women and girls more confidence in their autistic identity. I also read many books on autism that Sarah lent me, so I could gain a broader understanding of the subject. We met up many times to discuss her research in depth, which allowed me to fundamentally understand what she wanted to achieve with the book. Sophie: It was such a great learning experience for me-I love collaborating with people like Sarah because her enthusiasm for the subject really inspired me to come up with creative ways of illustrating autism. And because Sophie was already experienced in illustrating invisible diagnoses, like anxiety and pain, using visual metaphors, it just felt like a really good fit to also be working with her to communicate autistic women’s experiences. Sarah: Working with Sophie was great-she is just so positive and curious which made her really easy to work with and bounce ideas off-it all came very naturally and she continually experimented with different ways of depicting the women’s experiences.

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Camouflage by Sarah Bargiela