Liane Holliday Willey

Liane Holliday Willey, EdD (born 1959) is a popular keynote speaker, best-selling American author, and educator. She was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome in 1996.

In her 1999 autobiography, Pretending to be normal, she coined the term aspie. She is the senior editor of the Autism Spectrum Quarterly and the founder of the Asperger Society of Michigan.

Bibliography

• Safety Skills for Asperger Women: How to Save a Perfectly Good Female Life, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011 (ISBN 1-84905-836-9)

• Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger’s Syndrome, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1999 (ISBN 1-85302-749-9)

• Asperger Syndrome in the Family: Redefining Normal, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001 (ISBN 1-85302-873-8)

• Adolescents and Asperger Syndrome in the Adolescent Years: Living With the Ups and Downs and Things in Between, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2003 (ISBN 1-84310-742-2)

External links

• Liane Holliday Willey's personal webpage
• Autism Spectrum Quarterly
• Asperger Society of Michigan