Chapter 10: Autism

Poems 2Words: 636

I'm out of this world

I've always felt different

Too aware of the skin

That stretches over my bones

Muscles that ache

Third eye open

I welcomed myself

Into the other place

Here they call it

Mental illness

But we all know

That is a lie

I see things others cannot

I feel sensations

Unfelt by those around

My heart stops beating

Every night

When I'm greeted by them

And I wake to sounds unplayed

Absence of sound

Absence of sanity

Filled by the unpercieved

There is more of us

I learned

And you cannot deny us

What we know to be a truth

Obscured by your tangents

Of lies interwined

Choking strangling

Pulling us under

Your idea of normalcy