Story: Kate Monahan
Photography: Patrick Byler Clark
Sara X Mills is a YouTube sensation, a blogger, tattoo model and
known for her YouTube video of her twerking her breasts to Mozart
in perfect time, which has over 93 million views. She’s a viral
beauty with an interesting story. A writer and a model, appearing in
tattoo magazines, hitting ours, an Inked Magazine favorite, where
you can see some of her spreads on Inked’s website under the
section “Girls.” You won’t be disappointed.
While she photographs, writes well, and has a busy life, Sara has
also faced some recent challenges - dealing with her agoraphobia,
which you can read about on her latest blog, and being recently
diagnosed with Autism.
How did Sara find out she had this disorder now, one usually
caught in childhood?
After 28 years of dealing with symptoms, such as a painful reaction
to sounds such as metal on metal, heavy machinery, and certain
tones, feeling out of place and having trouble making friends,
feeling like a “weirdo,” as Sara describes and unable to ask enough
questions, keep a regular job or needing alcohol to socialize and
not understanding people’s emotions, basing everything on logic,
she talked to a close friend who suffered similar things. Her friend
was diagnosed with ASD - Autism Spectrum Disorder. Sara then
did her research and found a doctor that specialized in ASD and
made an appointment. She was tested through the ADOS Test,
Module 4 and was diagnosed with ASD-1, which is the diagnosis of
high functioning autism per the DSM-5.
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