Kim Miller

(1988-)

American artist

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Kim Miller (born 1988) is an American artist who was diagnosed with "classic" autism in 1991. She began creating artwork at the age of 3 1/2 years old before she could functionally speak. At first, her artwork was just the outward articulation of an aloof, introverted, seemingly expressionless autistic child. After several years of utilizing sign language, delayed echolalia (the echoing of words and phrases), coupled with speech therapy, she learned to speak verbally as detailed in the book The Girl Who Spoke With Pictures, which describes her advancement as a person with autism. Although Miller learned how to verbalize, she found it frustrating, difficult and time consuming to communicate with words in real time. Drawing became a short cut to show her thoughts, feelings and needs.