Poems about Autism and Asperger syndrome
#Autism
Poems about Autism and Asperger syndrome. Poetry about autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a broad range of conditions which commonly present challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech and nonverbal communication. Poems about life with Autism, written by those who have it, and their loved ones.
Sky_dancer
Poem Published
20th Jan 2020 9:45pm
20th Jan 2020 9:45pm
Misfiring Again
Fuck
I'm doing it again
They. Can't. Read. My. Mind.
I need to use words but they won't come out
They wouldn't understand
So they won't come out
They twist and shout my words
So they won't come out
I have no mental energy
to tell you
I have no mental energy
And I know...
I know you think it's you
something you said
something you did
or didn't say
or do
No
this is on me
my brain's broke
or the circuits need rewiring
...
I'm doing it again
They. Can't. Read. My. Mind.
I need to use words but they won't come out
They wouldn't understand
So they won't come out
They twist and shout my words
So they won't come out
I have no mental energy
to tell you
I have no mental energy
And I know...
I know you think it's you
something you said
something you did
or didn't say
or do
No
this is on me
my brain's broke
or the circuits need rewiring
...
#dialogue
#Autism
57 reads
12 Comments
PoetsRevenge
Poem Published
15th Jan 2020 3:56am
15th Jan 2020 3:56am
Otherthinker
I cannot teach anybody anything,
I can only make them think.'
- Socrates
It's okay to be different;
everything on Earth is strange
to everything else.
The quest for understanding
is the electrical bridge
within that formless gap
which luminesces
and grows experience
through learning and trying to envision
what seems nebulous at best.
The mind needs observed differences
to expand its bank of experience
and to learn to distinguish
many points on a...
I can only make them think.'
- Socrates
It's okay to be different;
everything on Earth is strange
to everything else.
The quest for understanding
is the electrical bridge
within that formless gap
which luminesces
and grows experience
through learning and trying to envision
what seems nebulous at best.
The mind needs observed differences
to expand its bank of experience
and to learn to distinguish
many points on a...
#Autism
79 reads
20 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
13th Jan 2020 2:28pm
13th Jan 2020 2:28pm
To Oochie Wally
I’m sorry for the times I screamed,
For the times I didn’t understand our genes,
Because in the beginning I didn’t know there something was wrong,
When you kept repeating everything you heard and went along,
Echoing every word I said,
Echoing every word I said.
Oh, your face.
I remember that time we sat in the restaurant,
When the band started playing right up front,
And even though I knew the music was loud,
You started crying so hard in the crowd,
I didn’t know what was wrong,
I didn’t know what was wrong. ...
For the times I didn’t understand our genes,
Because in the beginning I didn’t know there something was wrong,
When you kept repeating everything you heard and went along,
Echoing every word I said,
Echoing every word I said.
Oh, your face.
I remember that time we sat in the restaurant,
When the band started playing right up front,
And even though I knew the music was loud,
You started crying so hard in the crowd,
I didn’t know what was wrong,
I didn’t know what was wrong. ...
#family
#son
#Autism
54 reads
8 Comments
AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
11th Jan 2020 6:05pm
11th Jan 2020 6:05pm
Our Pieces Fit
Out on the frontier
Of what it is to be human
Trying to keep us
Under lock and key
Out of balance
The instinct to correct
Is overwhelming
Almost habitual
The spirit that burns
Deep inside us
Is a soaring passion
An obsession
That flies in the face of normal
The portrait of difference
Tip the scales
We are the probable cause
For the cracks in the human veneer
It’s cold comfort
To have our vision dulled
As we are expected
Survive in the spectrum...
Of what it is to be human
Trying to keep us
Under lock and key
Out of balance
The instinct to correct
Is overwhelming
Almost habitual
The spirit that burns
Deep inside us
Is a soaring passion
An obsession
That flies in the face of normal
The portrait of difference
Tip the scales
We are the probable cause
For the cracks in the human veneer
It’s cold comfort
To have our vision dulled
As we are expected
Survive in the spectrum...
#Autism
41 reads
7 Comments
AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
4th Jan 2020 6:47am
4th Jan 2020 6:47am
Autism Lives Matter
We are diagnosed
By these faceless professionals
Then the door is closed
Left with amateur confessionals
The reality all too clear
Difference fuels fear
A flawed creation
Flawed description
Inclusion a cruel deception.
Autism lives the graffiti inscription
Normal doesn’t grasp it
If it can’t clap it
We walk amongst you
Walking sometimes undetected
Expected to perform on cue
So the data is collected
Ignorance judging day by day
Our voices never on display
...
By these faceless professionals
Then the door is closed
Left with amateur confessionals
The reality all too clear
Difference fuels fear
A flawed creation
Flawed description
Inclusion a cruel deception.
Autism lives the graffiti inscription
Normal doesn’t grasp it
If it can’t clap it
We walk amongst you
Walking sometimes undetected
Expected to perform on cue
So the data is collected
Ignorance judging day by day
Our voices never on display
...
#Autism
43 reads
5 Comments
AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
20th Dec 2019 12:24pm
20th Dec 2019 12:24pm
Monsters Must Die !!
There’s a mirror
I look at everyday
The reflection it shows
Never reveals the monster
A pack of tarot cards
Cracked crystal ball
Warp my future
Amongst the spiritual world
Crawling inside a door
Won’t hide my failures
Phone book full of nothing
So called friends fall like dominoes
The sound of misunderstanding
Carried on a billion breaths
Like the drool
Ignorance spits out every day
Been called weird
Abrasive by some
Just because I don’t fit
In their...
I look at everyday
The reflection it shows
Never reveals the monster
A pack of tarot cards
Cracked crystal ball
Warp my future
Amongst the spiritual world
Crawling inside a door
Won’t hide my failures
Phone book full of nothing
So called friends fall like dominoes
The sound of misunderstanding
Carried on a billion breaths
Like the drool
Ignorance spits out every day
Been called weird
Abrasive by some
Just because I don’t fit
In their...
#anger
#disability
#Autism
41 reads
5 Comments
AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
17th Dec 2019 10:21am
17th Dec 2019 10:21am
We Are The Stars
In the name of Autism
We were seen
As an incomplete jigsaw
Missing pieces
To a puzzle
They sought to solve
Coming into the light
Like butterflies
Our beauty is our difference
Each colour
Paints our picture
On the canvas of life
We talk about it
In whispers
Hide ourselves
Our footprints
Are there in the sand
For all too see
Let us fly
We will show you
A world you haven’t seen
Forget the rhetoric about us
The graffiti...
We were seen
As an incomplete jigsaw
Missing pieces
To a puzzle
They sought to solve
Coming into the light
Like butterflies
Our beauty is our difference
Each colour
Paints our picture
On the canvas of life
We talk about it
In whispers
Hide ourselves
Our footprints
Are there in the sand
For all too see
Let us fly
We will show you
A world you haven’t seen
Forget the rhetoric about us
The graffiti...
#Autism
75 reads
8 Comments
MadameLavender
Poem Published
16th Dec 2019 9:00pm
16th Dec 2019 9:00pm
Awe--tistic
(writte for Sky Dancer's "Autistic" comp)
Eardrums ring
(with)
shattering depths
of atomic rearrangement—
molecules colliding
dividing—
I see chemical bonds break
(all the time)
and become something else—
inertia
in my mind.
(Ssshhhhh……)
I can’t stop watching (chemical) reactions
visualize
behind my eyes—
fascinating……
if you touch me
they interrupt
and I must start again
observing
counting—
(the seventh wave is always the strongest ...
Eardrums ring
(with)
shattering depths
of atomic rearrangement—
molecules colliding
dividing—
I see chemical bonds break
(all the time)
and become something else—
inertia
in my mind.
(Ssshhhhh……)
I can’t stop watching (chemical) reactions
visualize
behind my eyes—
fascinating……
if you touch me
they interrupt
and I must start again
observing
counting—
(the seventh wave is always the strongest ...
#Autism
66 reads
6 Comments
AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
5th Dec 2019 11:49am
5th Dec 2019 11:49am
We Are Autism
We are human
Of sorts
In mutated form
A minority
That is growing
Finding a voice
We exist
Despite attempts
To change our identity
The purpose of inclusion
Is to educate
Not eradicate
So with open minds
Open hands
We bare our souls everyday
It’s a hard thing to do
Explaining how you function
To everyone you meet
Constantly jumping through
Hoops designed
To normalise us
Who are...
Of sorts
In mutated form
A minority
That is growing
Finding a voice
We exist
Despite attempts
To change our identity
The purpose of inclusion
Is to educate
Not eradicate
So with open minds
Open hands
We bare our souls everyday
It’s a hard thing to do
Explaining how you function
To everyone you meet
Constantly jumping through
Hoops designed
To normalise us
Who are...
#Autism
83 reads
9 Comments
AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
27th Nov 2019 1:23pm
27th Nov 2019 1:23pm
My Square World
These walls
Surround me
My square world
The door
Is shut tight
To keep them out
Can still hear
The everyday noise
Of life
Time slips away
In the darkness
With my thoughts
Do not disturb
Leave me
To my own devices
Sometimes being antisocial
Is crucial
To my sanity and survival
Surround me
My square world
The door
Is shut tight
To keep them out
Can still hear
The everyday noise
Of life
Time slips away
In the darkness
With my thoughts
Do not disturb
Leave me
To my own devices
Sometimes being antisocial
Is crucial
To my sanity and survival
#LifeStruggles
#Autism
59 reads
1 Comment
AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
23rd Nov 2019 00:44am
23rd Nov 2019 00:44am
I Am Sorry For Being Me
I am the stigma
That stirs the pot
The label
That flaps in the breeze
I exist
Only in a scientific paper
Revealing my faults
As if it was a shopping list
Where perfection
Is regarded as beauty
I am the ugly face
That humanity tries to hide
The inkblot that smudges
But won’t be erased
My voice an irritation
That shouldn’t be heard
The message is clear
Stay invisible
The masses hate
The weirdness I radiate
So to save your blushes
The guilt...
That stirs the pot
The label
That flaps in the breeze
I exist
Only in a scientific paper
Revealing my faults
As if it was a shopping list
Where perfection
Is regarded as beauty
I am the ugly face
That humanity tries to hide
The inkblot that smudges
But won’t be erased
My voice an irritation
That shouldn’t be heard
The message is clear
Stay invisible
The masses hate
The weirdness I radiate
So to save your blushes
The guilt...
#anger
#disability
#Autism
89 reads
5 Comments
Orc_Pirate_68
Poem Published
15th Nov 2019 9:47pm
15th Nov 2019 9:47pm
Those Colorful Puzzle Pieces
I've noticed and been told,
By my mother who truth be told,
Most days,
Feels and acts in the same ways,
But does not have the same processes
To get to the relatively same outcomes, or feelings about things as me (it's hopeless
To try and understand her thought processes),
That I might be on the autism spectrum because of my thought processes.
The way I experience the world with so much more intensity,
Every color, every color scheme, pattern, texture, artwork, art motif, long/unusal/archaic/scientific/magickal word,
Cutting through...
By my mother who truth be told,
Most days,
Feels and acts in the same ways,
But does not have the same processes
To get to the relatively same outcomes, or feelings about things as me (it's hopeless
To try and understand her thought processes),
That I might be on the autism spectrum because of my thought processes.
The way I experience the world with so much more intensity,
Every color, every color scheme, pattern, texture, artwork, art motif, long/unusal/archaic/scientific/magickal word,
Cutting through...
#happiness
#identity
#power
#MentalHealth
#Autism
70 reads
3 Comments
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