Kimberly Gerry-Tucker

I'm Kimberly Gerry-Tucker. My life's been layer upon layer of ever-changing, all-consuming passionate interests like the study of history, rocks, anthropology, Buddhism, reading biographies, and many other things. I'm a mother, a writer, an artist, and I have Aspergers. It was the solitary things I enjoyed as a child, like picking mica sheets off boulders in the woods and cracking rocks to glimpse the sparklies. Nowadays, I am learning to carve wood using sharp knives and chisels. I love to create mosaics too, and I love to look at them and to look at patterns in general . I often decoupage cut-out pictures onto objects; it's great fun. Artistic expression is an important, even therapeutic means of communication- to be able to "go to another place" for awhile, especially since I struggle with effective communication. When I saw the movie "The King's Speech," my eyes stung with tears again and again throughout the movie. I related deeply to the main character's humility, fear, anger, embarrassment, and frustration at not having a reliable voice in expected situations. His nemesis was stammering; and mine will probably always be Selective Mutism, which I've had all my life. I always did exercise my right brain more than I ever did exercise my body. When I was 26 yrs. old,  I first tried to paint. I started on saw blades, of all things, and sold at least a hundred. I progressed to canvas and put the blades away. My paintings began to show yearly with AANE. "Shattered Image (self portrait)" appears on the cover of "Artism: The ART of Autism, Shattering Myths about People Living on the Spectrum."  From 2000 to 2005, I didn't paint because my husband was dying.  I was his sole caregiver. Recently, I published a book about that experience: "Under A Banana Moon (Living, Loving, Loss, and Aspergers)" available on amazon for kindle. My book was reviewed by filmmaker/autism seminar leader Keri Bowers, by author Helen L. Irlen, MA, LMFT (executive director of The Irlen Institute), by Kathy Hoopmann (author of "All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome"), and by author and peer Wendy Lawson. They were kind enough to write blurbs for the back cover of my book. The Foreword is written by Donna Williams.

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