Poems About Autism Seeking Friendly Advice
#Autism
AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
2nd Mar 2020 6:33am
2nd Mar 2020 6:33am
Let The Silence Fall
Heading across reality
The white noise
Is a crashing building
The signal not distinguished
There’s no filter
Sound and motion
Our kryptonite
An overload of information
Breaks our barriers
Forcing a shutdown
Let the silence fall
To gather up
Some kind of sanity
Our emotions
Melt the wires inside
We are what we are
Right or wrong
Surviving the winds
Of indifference
Obstacles our playing field
The white noise
Is a crashing building
The signal not distinguished
There’s no filter
Sound and motion
Our kryptonite
An overload of information
Breaks our barriers
Forcing a shutdown
Let the silence fall
To gather up
Some kind of sanity
Our emotions
Melt the wires inside
We are what we are
Right or wrong
Surviving the winds
Of indifference
Obstacles our playing field
#Autism
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AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
2nd Mar 2020 6:03am
2nd Mar 2020 6:03am
Not Ours To Define
If you believe
The hype
We roll over emotion
Like a steamroller
Walking upon
An island
Surrounded by sharks
Wanting to consume our identity
Hanging over us
The guillotine
That needs to chop
The difference we are
Around and around
We chase illusions
The direction to normality
Not ours to define
The hype
We roll over emotion
Like a steamroller
Walking upon
An island
Surrounded by sharks
Wanting to consume our identity
Hanging over us
The guillotine
That needs to chop
The difference we are
Around and around
We chase illusions
The direction to normality
Not ours to define
#Autism
#acceptance
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AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
1st Mar 2020 8:46pm
1st Mar 2020 8:46pm
Broken Blueprint
A push button society
Ease of use
No understanding required
Delivery assured
Set out
As a blueprint
Written by people
Who think they know
Flowcharts and diagrams
A checklist to tick
But nothing
Is that black and white
Clambering for clarity
Amongst labels
Isn’t easy
As labels assume truth
Ease of use
No understanding required
Delivery assured
Set out
As a blueprint
Written by people
Who think they know
Flowcharts and diagrams
A checklist to tick
But nothing
Is that black and white
Clambering for clarity
Amongst labels
Isn’t easy
As labels assume truth
#Autism
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2 Comments
AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
1st Mar 2020 1:16pm
1st Mar 2020 1:16pm
Same Skin
You are not me
Though
We have the same skin
The distance between us
Goes much deeper
Losing my identity
In the label given
It’s bigger
Than the reality
Clouds understanding
You keep an eye on me
That’s not enough
When half-hearted
It misses the point
Of who I truly am
Even in the spotlight
It blinds the truth
There’s more in the shadow
Probe a little harder
You might find we are human
After all….
Though
We have the same skin
The distance between us
Goes much deeper
Losing my identity
In the label given
It’s bigger
Than the reality
Clouds understanding
You keep an eye on me
That’s not enough
When half-hearted
It misses the point
Of who I truly am
Even in the spotlight
It blinds the truth
There’s more in the shadow
Probe a little harder
You might find we are human
After all….
#Autism
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3 Comments
AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
29th Feb 2020 5:37am
29th Feb 2020 5:37am
Am I Really A Puzzle?
Don’t …
Try to save me
Change me
I am not cancer
Just different
Feel like…
Your cocoon
Is more confusing
That independence
Is a cruel illusion
Endless…
Solutions to a puzzle
That’s only
In your own head
No puzzle here
Acceptance…
Is not our problem
It’s yours
We compromise
You don’t
Try to save me
Change me
I am not cancer
Just different
Feel like…
Your cocoon
Is more confusing
That independence
Is a cruel illusion
Endless…
Solutions to a puzzle
That’s only
In your own head
No puzzle here
Acceptance…
Is not our problem
It’s yours
We compromise
You don’t
#Autism
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4 Comments
AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
20th Feb 2020 8:05am
20th Feb 2020 8:05am
Perception
For those
Who follow as cattle do
Without thought
Conditioned
To fear rebellion
The bells toll
A mockery of freedom
Mourning lost rights
Clawed from fingers
Of the vulnerable
Candles lit
For the fallen
Voices of the demented
Gagged
Like bodies in straight jackets
Futile rage
Of the few
Up against loneliness
The best of us
Forgotten
Embers
Still lie
Waiting to spark
Burning the strings
Of perceived disability
Who follow as cattle do
Without thought
Conditioned
To fear rebellion
The bells toll
A mockery of freedom
Mourning lost rights
Clawed from fingers
Of the vulnerable
Candles lit
For the fallen
Voices of the demented
Gagged
Like bodies in straight jackets
Futile rage
Of the few
Up against loneliness
The best of us
Forgotten
Embers
Still lie
Waiting to spark
Burning the strings
Of perceived disability
#Autism
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3 Comments
AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
18th Feb 2020 7:02pm
18th Feb 2020 7:02pm
Quiet Time Shopping
Autistics being seduced
By quiet time shopping
Open your eyes
It’s just another form of prejudice
To keep us in line
Keep us out of the way
It’s a special time
For the special generation
Feed us your contempt
With your policy of mis information
Treating us different
With half truths and lies
Becoming the hook line
Of popular propaganda
Gives reason for discrimination
We won’t be beaten
By your stick of ignorance
If a slow sedation
Is your best solution ...
By quiet time shopping
Open your eyes
It’s just another form of prejudice
To keep us in line
Keep us out of the way
It’s a special time
For the special generation
Feed us your contempt
With your policy of mis information
Treating us different
With half truths and lies
Becoming the hook line
Of popular propaganda
Gives reason for discrimination
We won’t be beaten
By your stick of ignorance
If a slow sedation
Is your best solution ...
#Autism
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3 Comments
firstyearoflove
Poem Published
18th Feb 2020 4:38am
18th Feb 2020 4:38am
To The People Who Mock "different"
You judge what you are afraid of
and yet you can’t be judged in return
you mock what you can’t understand
and yet you can’t handle being mocked in return
you look down on us for being different
all while proclaiming that differences make the world go ‘round
do you not see what is happening?
you are so blinded by the normal you see in your own mind
that you can’t possibly fathom the “un-normal”
normal shouldn’t exist in our world
and yet to you, it does
you want to live in a...
and yet you can’t be judged in return
you mock what you can’t understand
and yet you can’t handle being mocked in return
you look down on us for being different
all while proclaiming that differences make the world go ‘round
do you not see what is happening?
you are so blinded by the normal you see in your own mind
that you can’t possibly fathom the “un-normal”
normal shouldn’t exist in our world
and yet to you, it does
you want to live in a...
#acceptance
#Autism
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4 Comments
timkit
Tim Kitchen
Tim Kitchen
Poem Published
17th Feb 2020 4:04pm
17th Feb 2020 4:04pm
A Day In The Life Of Jacob
A Day In The Life Of Jacob
Even though it rises every day
somewhere, someplace in time.
On a day in the life of Jacob
the sun doesn’t often shine.
A shopping centre is bright and loud
and Jacob is sitting on the ground.
With his head buried in his hands
sensory overload of sight and sound.
People notice as he begins to shout
his Mother scared he’ll run away.
Some think he’s badly behaved
but for him it’s just an Autism day.
Later he escapes to his room
stressed and needing time alone. ...
Even though it rises every day
somewhere, someplace in time.
On a day in the life of Jacob
the sun doesn’t often shine.
A shopping centre is bright and loud
and Jacob is sitting on the ground.
With his head buried in his hands
sensory overload of sight and sound.
People notice as he begins to shout
his Mother scared he’ll run away.
Some think he’s badly behaved
but for him it’s just an Autism day.
Later he escapes to his room
stressed and needing time alone. ...
#Autism
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2 Comments
AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
15th Feb 2020 12:12pm
15th Feb 2020 12:12pm
Remember
Do you remember me
The lonely one in the corner
Always on the outskirts
Never quite fitting in
Just a little awkward
Do you remember me
There but not there
A footnote in life
Merely a ghost in the crowd
Never in the line of sight
Do you remember me
Nothing but a whisper
That was never really heard
A shadow on the wall
The faint echo
Do you remember me
No don’t say you did
Cause I’m still here
Still on the outside
Trying to get in
Do you remember me ...
The lonely one in the corner
Always on the outskirts
Never quite fitting in
Just a little awkward
Do you remember me
There but not there
A footnote in life
Merely a ghost in the crowd
Never in the line of sight
Do you remember me
Nothing but a whisper
That was never really heard
A shadow on the wall
The faint echo
Do you remember me
No don’t say you did
Cause I’m still here
Still on the outside
Trying to get in
Do you remember me ...
#Autism
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4 Comments
AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
29th Jan 2020 7:19pm
29th Jan 2020 7:19pm
Radio Autism
This is Radio Autism
Calling out to the world
Is there anybody out there?
We are on frequency
Just listen to what we have to say
It’s no mystery
We do speak a normal language
Turn the dial
Feel our rhythm
Out on the airwaves
Make a connection
Hear the beat of our weirdness
We might be out of step
But if you catch the hook
The music is the same
Don’t be scared to tune in
Radio Autism is a different sound
An alternative view
Of what goes on
In this ever changing...
Calling out to the world
Is there anybody out there?
We are on frequency
Just listen to what we have to say
It’s no mystery
We do speak a normal language
Turn the dial
Feel our rhythm
Out on the airwaves
Make a connection
Hear the beat of our weirdness
We might be out of step
But if you catch the hook
The music is the same
Don’t be scared to tune in
Radio Autism is a different sound
An alternative view
Of what goes on
In this ever changing...
#Autism
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12 Comments
AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
29th Jan 2020 1:28am
29th Jan 2020 1:28am
No Half Measures
Anger bleeds out
Like pressurised steam from a pipe
It bellows it hisses
All the while taking over
Leaving me shaken
There’s no valve to lessen the effect
It’s either off or on
No half measures in this pea brain
Warring cells burn themselves out
Leaving me drained of energy
Can’t step away from it all
Mind overthinks every situation
Trying to solve worse scenarios
That in the end never come
Just frustrations of my own making
Nothing reverses it’s a race for sanity
They could fit...
Like pressurised steam from a pipe
It bellows it hisses
All the while taking over
Leaving me shaken
There’s no valve to lessen the effect
It’s either off or on
No half measures in this pea brain
Warring cells burn themselves out
Leaving me drained of energy
Can’t step away from it all
Mind overthinks every situation
Trying to solve worse scenarios
That in the end never come
Just frustrations of my own making
Nothing reverses it’s a race for sanity
They could fit...
#Autism
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2 Comments
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