Alexis Wineman

Wineman is from Cut Bank, Montana, and states that as a child, she always felt different and was bullied. She said that she began to understand why after she was diagnosed with "PDD-NOS (Pervasive Developmental Disorder- Not Otherwise Specified), an autism spectrum disorder" at the age of 11. She attended Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama, and graduated in 2017 with a degree in art. She currently lives in Montgomery, Alabama and works at a daycare out of a church. Alexis still offers speaking events, but hasn't been getting many since graduating college.

Wineman did not grow up with an interest in beauty pageants, stating that she was instead the "girl with the hoodies on. I never wore makeup all that much. I wasn't much into beauty at all – to be honest, I'm still not all that much." Her platform as Miss Montana was "Normal is just a dryer setting – Living with autism" and, at the age of 18, she was the youngest contestant in the Miss America 2013 pageant.

Her older sister, Danielle Wineman, was named Miss Montana in June 2015.

File:Alexis Wineman - Malmstrom AFB Father Daughter Dance tiara.jpg

• {{cite news |last=Wineman |first=Alexis. |url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/17/health/wineman-autism/index.html |title=Miss Montana: Autism doesn't define me |publisher=CNN |date=January 17, 2013}}

• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgL1_wUEav0 Vote for Miss Montana 2012 Alexis Wineman] - Miss America Organization
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD_MSmwHhjs Miss America Contestant Makes History] - ABC News
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIfQPZMD7b8 Person of the Week: Miss Montana Alexis Wineman] - ABC News

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{{cite news |first=Bianna |last=Golodryga |work=Good Morning America |publisher=ABC News |title=Alexis Wineman, Miss Montana, First Miss America Contestant Diagnosed With Autism |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/alexis-wiseman-miss-montana-first-autistic-miss-america-contestant/blogEntry?id=18190442 |date=January 11, 2013 |access-date=July 15, 2015}}

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{{cite web |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20664029,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112205956/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20664029,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 12, 2013 |title=Miss America Contestant Alexis Wineman Talks About Growing Up with Autism |last=Grey |first=Mark |date=Jan 12, 2013 |publisher=People Magazine}}

{{cite web |url=https://style.time.com/2013/01/11/5-questions-with-alexis-wineman-miss-americas-first-autistic-contestant/ |title=5 Questions with Alexis Wineman: Miss America's First Autistic Contestant |last=Sun |first=FeiFei |date=January 11, 2013 |publisher=Time}}

{{cite web |url=http://www.today.com/style/miss-montana-first-autistic-contestant-miss-america-1B7922351 |title=Miss Montana is first autistic contestant for Miss America |last=Lewin |first=Adrienne |date=Jan 10, 2013 |publisher=Today}}

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