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'I'm not afraid to be who I am': Local artist embraces her autism through artwork


RACINE — Every single person in Elle Maru’s family knew her as an artist.
“My entire life, I’ve been drawing,” said Maru, 22. “But because everyone was encouraging me to be an artist, I didn’t want to be an artist. I felt it was too easy.”
Maru, who graduated in the summer from Carthage College with a degree in fine art, was aware of how strange it sounded to think that. Art just came too naturally to her, she said, and she wanted to do something different.
But she felt pressured by society and herself to pursue “something that makes sense on paper,” she said, and for her, that was being a Japanese translator. ....

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