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A Work In Progress
Come in
Witness
How autism
Really works
Just keep your distance
Be captivated
By the surprises
That reveal
A different humanity
Please don’t touch
Are we evolution
A work in progress
Tolerated
More than accepted
Ignored by the blind
Be aware
This won’t go away
Prejudgment
Might slow us down
But won’t stop the tide
A pandemic
Is at hand
Our virus
Has been cultivated
Grown in the public eye
Watch out
We are among you
Our silence
Is for your protection
As intelligence frightens
Witness
How autism
Really works
Just keep your distance
Be captivated
By the surprises
That reveal
A different humanity
Please don’t touch
Are we evolution
A work in progress
Tolerated
More than accepted
Ignored by the blind
Be aware
This won’t go away
Prejudgment
Might slow us down
But won’t stop the tide
A pandemic
Is at hand
Our virus
Has been cultivated
Grown in the public eye
Watch out
We are among you
Our silence
Is for your protection
As intelligence frightens
Published 8th Mar 2020
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8th Mar 2020 11:19am
8th Mar 2020 11:32am
You have taken that out of context the stanza is saying that the judgements and preconceptions people have about autism won’t slow us down
8th Mar 2020 11:40am
true words of insight for folks with autism are no more different then the rest of the world they just deal with life on a different level way differently yet still standing and fighting to be who they are destine to be human beings just like you a work in progress...respect
8th Mar 2020 5:17pm
It does frighten, AP, because it thinks for itself rather than jumps on the bandwagon of conformation. Very well done. So impressed with this new direction of work surrounding autism. it's both enlightening and solid poetry.
Anonymous
8th Mar 2020 8:08pm
I muchly enjoyed the ominous overtones in the ending; it whispers "Welcome to the New World disOrder".
14th Jun 2023 6:53am
Yes. Evolution that strikes fear in the masses that can't understand a world they can't see. I imagine.
