I'm a Modern Languages postgraduate student at the University of Oxford. I have a degree in Comparative Literature from University College London (UCL).
Born and raised in France, I moved to the UK in 2018 after spending several months in Scandinavia. I was formally diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome (nowadays called autism) and ADHD after several misdiagnoses with mental health disorders and unsuccessful treatments to improve my mental health.
I have been drawing for a long time and started sharing my drawings following my diagnosis with autism. I'm trying to break stereotypes about gender, age, and race that surround autism and cause a lot of misunderstanding. I want to raise awareness of the situation of autistic women and girls who are very often misdiagnosed with other mental health illnesses or never diagnosed at all.
I am the founder and president of the UCL autism society and have been involved in numerous talks and campaigns about neuro-diversity, autistic females and mental health.
Alice Farion
Student based in Oxford, United Kingdom

Contact: inkingautism@gmail.com
Talks and seminars
2021, December
UNAM UK: Applied-Health Humanities Webinar
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5nNdAyOq4zcnRvDIA1u0HJH5Eivvb6KI
2021, 2nd December
UCL Centre for AI: #Wearethe15 in AI Webinar - Chair of the panel on Autism and AI
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wethe15-in-ai-tickets-207803364457
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoRa0hK3csc
2021, 8th June
UCL Societies Awards: Welfare Award
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fGC9L1-8Q
2021
UCL Students' Union: This Girl Can
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzC2e6xktNI&feature=emb_title
2020, 5th November
UCL - Talk for medical students on accessibility in sports (recording only available for UCL students)
2019
Spotlight on: Life at UCL with an Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP1p9YUitNs&feature=emb_title
Publications
2022
UCL: Studying tips and tricks: a Neurodivergent Perspective
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/students/news/2022/mar/studying-tips-and-tricks-neurodivergent-perspective
2021
Where The Leaves Fall: [Illustration] 'The Earthy Sensuous' by Shell Parsons, issue 7, pp. 134-5.
https://wheretheleavesfall.com/explore/article-index/the-earthly-sensuous/
2021
Hope Mindset: [Mixed media] 'Recovery'.
2021
Aspiring to be You: 'The co-occurrence of autism and eating disorders'.
https://aspiringtobeu.com/story-4-the-co-occurrence-of-autism-and-eating-disorders/
2021
UCL Student Union: This Girl Can.
https://studentsunionucl.org/articles/this-girl-can-alice-renard
2020
The Art of autism: 'The Heartbreak and Shame of Pretending to be Normal in a Neurotypical World'.
Cheese Grater magazine: 'My Four Walls: Coping with an Eating Disorder during a Pandemic'.
2020
UCL Student Union: My summer story.
https://studentsunionucl.org/articles/my-summer-story-alice
2020
Drawing Out
https://drawingout.org/artwork/alice-farion-2/
2020
Drawing Out
https://drawingout.org/artwork/alice-farion/
2020
The Art of Autism: 'How Drawing Helps Me Express the Loneliness and Alienation I Feel'.
https://the-art-of-autism.com/how-drawing-helps-me-express-the-loneliness-and-alienation-i-feel/
2020
Tabou Magazine: 'Sensory Overload'.