Rudy Simone,
Author of Aspergirls: Empowering Women with Asperger Syndrome and
Asperger’s On the Job
"I had the easiest time of my life writing my three Asperger
books. I just ran like Secretariat once I got going. But, I did learn that
questionnaires make good research tools. I had three levels of questionnaires,
each expanding on the one before it, so I didn’t have to individually interview
each person. I did that by email or phone if and when it was warranted. By the
time I wrote Aspergirls I had it streamlined: The questionnaires were posted on
my site, the first one visible to the public so anyone could use it, then the
2nd and third were on hidden pages that I gave my participants the URL
to. The data was compiled and I received email alerts whenever there was a
new entry. So while I was researching certain elements of my book, the
questionnaires and the people who used them were doing a lot of the legwork.
Being that I’m fairly uneducated, I think I did a pretty good job with it.
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