Gunilla Gerland

Gunilla Gerland, born 1963 in Stockholm, is an author, lecturer and debater on the topic of Asperger syndrome.
Her 1996 autobiography entitled A Real Person: Life on the Outside, described her life growing up with Asperger syndrome in an unsympathetic environment.
She has continued to write and also to lecture and debate on Asperger syndrome and on the autism spectrum. She works as a counsellor and educator in the field in Stockholm. Her writings have been cited in work concerning the autism spectrum and autism-related problems such as prosopagnosia, in addition to ways in which autism is analysed and discussed.