In this poem I am speaking in the point of view of someone with autism because a character in my ISU novel has autism.
They will never fully understand why I am so quiet,
Outspoken without speaking at all.
Small talk is the only talk I know,
I can never seem to want to let a conversation flow.
They call it a complex developmental disability,
Yet they don't understand my ability.
To deeply love the one thing I am good at,
Without being good at too much.
People don't understand me,
They think I can't feel.
Just because I don't show my emotions,
Doesn't mean I'm not real.
A myth, I tell you,
I am just like the rest.
That was a tremendous poem Manroop. I enjoyed how you really demonstrated the perspective of an autistic person. :)
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