Long Poems About Autism
#Autism
Northern_Soul
-Missy-
-Missy-
Poem Published
16th Feb 2024 7:39pm
16th Feb 2024 7:39pm
The Ballad Of No-Man Pam
Let me start by saying
I liked her.
It was as simple as that.
There were billions of people in the world,
and I liked maybe five,
but she was one—
complex and undignified,
farted with meaning in her beat-up car,
as the fog rolled in
and you were never entirely sure
where menthol vape met air biscuit.
We swam once a week together,
poured ourselves into awkward Lycra
and willed each other towards water.
Shy of babysitters, her...
I liked her.
It was as simple as that.
There were billions of people in the world,
and I liked maybe five,
but she was one—
complex and undignified,
farted with meaning in her beat-up car,
as the fog rolled in
and you were never entirely sure
where menthol vape met air biscuit.
We swam once a week together,
poured ourselves into awkward Lycra
and willed each other towards water.
Shy of babysitters, her...
#motherhood
#friendship
#water
#disability
#Autism
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6 Comments
ImperfectedStone
The Gardener
The Gardener
Poem Published
24th Jul 2023 10:06pm
24th Jul 2023 10:06pm
About the not talked about
We don't talk about
the parents who are currently seeking,
sat and just about speaking,
waiting and waiting, unreeling,
the diagnosis they're asking for treating,
the two years before they could see it,
the three or more spent to decree it,
the lack of solution, the bleak disolution,
the millions of boxes to meet it,
the islands of adults unknown,
their youth, elephants in the room,
the decades of reports, of mumbled retorts,
the managing just to be being,
it's something you know - now to know it,
to acknowledge how we've...
the parents who are currently seeking,
sat and just about speaking,
waiting and waiting, unreeling,
the diagnosis they're asking for treating,
the two years before they could see it,
the three or more spent to decree it,
the lack of solution, the bleak disolution,
the millions of boxes to meet it,
the islands of adults unknown,
their youth, elephants in the room,
the decades of reports, of mumbled retorts,
the managing just to be being,
it's something you know - now to know it,
to acknowledge how we've...
#parent
#Autism
181 reads
1 Comment
Styxian
Poem Published
2nd Nov 2022 00:40am
2nd Nov 2022 00:40am
"Your Name Goes Here"
Dear "______",
We're going to be okay.
But just in case,
I wrote you this note.
When I'm quiet, it's not to shun you,
I'm just at that place in my head.
I'm not even sure that it's within my brain.
It has it's own space, muffling my ears
and glazing my eyes
-It's all reversed, to outside in.
So I go deaf and blind, to many things,
but it's only temporary.
Doctors try to label it,
but I won't sit my ass in their box.
It's too small.
They can't even see the expanse
of all of my thoughts,...
We're going to be okay.
But just in case,
I wrote you this note.
When I'm quiet, it's not to shun you,
I'm just at that place in my head.
I'm not even sure that it's within my brain.
It has it's own space, muffling my ears
and glazing my eyes
-It's all reversed, to outside in.
So I go deaf and blind, to many things,
but it's only temporary.
Doctors try to label it,
but I won't sit my ass in their box.
It's too small.
They can't even see the expanse
of all of my thoughts,...
#PTSD
#Autism
766 reads
17 Comments
BlueBeastGirl
Beasty
Beasty
Poem Published
7th Aug 2021 3:50am
7th Aug 2021 3:50am
Autism isn't a dirty word
Sometimes I feel as if I'm not playing the same game
There's rules no ones explained to me
If you put me in a situation where I can't escape
I bite my nails, shake my head, avoid your eyes
I can't escape your eyes, seeing everything
You think I'm stupid, It's written all over your face
I'm bad with tone but I've heard yours before
Out of the mouths of the adults in my life their
Fists against the walls by my face screaming at me why can't I be normal
I have forgotten that in this world I'm wrong
Entire organizations color the way my brain is...
There's rules no ones explained to me
If you put me in a situation where I can't escape
I bite my nails, shake my head, avoid your eyes
I can't escape your eyes, seeing everything
You think I'm stupid, It's written all over your face
I'm bad with tone but I've heard yours before
Out of the mouths of the adults in my life their
Fists against the walls by my face screaming at me why can't I be normal
I have forgotten that in this world I'm wrong
Entire organizations color the way my brain is...
#rejection
#heartbroken
#disability
#Autism
#vulnerability
656 reads
4 Comments
BlueBeastGirl
Beasty
Beasty
Poem Published
9th Feb 2021 2:13am
9th Feb 2021 2:13am
Little Sick Girl Lessons 2
When I was little I didn't act like other girls my age
I couldn't sit still for long periods of time
I was terribly shy around people I didn't know
Only able to really carry on conversations
About these very specific topics that I knew too much about
Always changing the course of the conversation over and over
I wasn't "right" by the definition of girl
That adults kept holding me to
I was into fishing and camping much more than my brother
I loved carving things up into little figures
But that wasn't what little girls were supposed to like ...
I couldn't sit still for long periods of time
I was terribly shy around people I didn't know
Only able to really carry on conversations
About these very specific topics that I knew too much about
Always changing the course of the conversation over and over
I wasn't "right" by the definition of girl
That adults kept holding me to
I was into fishing and camping much more than my brother
I loved carving things up into little figures
But that wasn't what little girls were supposed to like ...
#childhood
#identity
#memories
#misunderstood
#Autism
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4 Comments
Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
25th Jun 2020 00:49am
25th Jun 2020 00:49am
JOURNEY THROUGH LIFE
Through trails and tribulations we will go through something's that we will never totally understand, as we may never truly understand as it is lessons that we must learn, for that is the journey of life with lessons to learn. That sometimes changes how we see and live within the depth of our lives. For sometimes we may encounter stumbling blocks, stopping us from going anywhere in our lives whether its forward sometimes just leaving us to go backwards. Yet that shouldn't be the case nor should it matter how you achieve your goals, for ask thyself what is fear for it is only a subconscious...
#anxiety
#bipolar
#PTSD
#nightmares
#Autism
616 reads
6 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
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8 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
416 reads
3 Comments
Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
26th Sep 2019 10:52pm
26th Sep 2019 10:52pm
BEHIND THE MASK
Have you ever encounter someone that seems mentally stable that they got it all together but yet beneath the surface of there mind and heart and soul, lays a deeper dark secret that they are afraid to share with the world that would shock you to your very soul, for we all suffer from some kind of an disorder of some kind or another whether its mentally or emotional till we feel afraid to tell anyone or show anyone who and what we are in real life.
...
...
#depression
#bipolar
#OCD
#PTSD
#Autism
645 reads
AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
14th Apr 2019 7:27am
14th Apr 2019 7:27am
Echoes Of Difference - with Sky_dancer
Empty moral standards
Look upon our difference
Try to quell our growth
They fear intelligence
Reacting through ignorance
We don't need a cure
Don't need fixin'
We're not disabled
In your broken world
We are not corrupted
Just think in a linear focused way
Shutting out the world
So we understand our surroundings
A little better a little clearer
Shut it out
Shut the door
Shut our mouths
Say no more
Explaining is exhausting
Thought of as a misfired...
Look upon our difference
Try to quell our growth
They fear intelligence
Reacting through ignorance
We don't need a cure
Don't need fixin'
We're not disabled
In your broken world
We are not corrupted
Just think in a linear focused way
Shutting out the world
So we understand our surroundings
A little better a little clearer
Shut it out
Shut the door
Shut our mouths
Say no more
Explaining is exhausting
Thought of as a misfired...
#Autism
680 reads
7 Comments
hammind
sarahjean
sarahjean
Poem Published
9th Feb 2017 11:35am
9th Feb 2017 11:35am
Kayla Takeuchi
Have you ever been moved to tears by a piano composition, Kayla?
I once laid in bed at 4 am with one of my best friends
and she played me a song and told me,
"This song is what I imagine being in love is like."
And I couldn't agree more.
We shed tears under her string lights,
And I did not sleep at all that night
Tell me, Kayla, do you know what being in love is like?
I listened to this music when I was 16, when I cried after class on the days where the sky was the biggest and brightest
And the clouds seemed to bumble just too fast ...
I once laid in bed at 4 am with one of my best friends
and she played me a song and told me,
"This song is what I imagine being in love is like."
And I couldn't agree more.
We shed tears under her string lights,
And I did not sleep at all that night
Tell me, Kayla, do you know what being in love is like?
I listened to this music when I was 16, when I cried after class on the days where the sky was the biggest and brightest
And the clouds seemed to bumble just too fast ...
#depression
#fate
#Autism
1002 reads
Naajir
Poem Published
14th Jun 2013 3:10am
14th Jun 2013 3:10am
My Little Heaven
I wonder...
If I could live poetically...
For one day only..
Just 24 hours..
What would I do?..
Didn't take much thought actually...
I would become neurologically altered so that
My speech will falter bringing me that
Much closer to my beautiful daughter...
In her world of autism....
Where I would give up the norm and
Embrace a new form of talking...walking with her
As she TAKES me by the hand helping me to
Innerstand the more grand plans beyond this land
Let her do the teaching
And I'll do the...
If I could live poetically...
For one day only..
Just 24 hours..
What would I do?..
Didn't take much thought actually...
I would become neurologically altered so that
My speech will falter bringing me that
Much closer to my beautiful daughter...
In her world of autism....
Where I would give up the norm and
Embrace a new form of talking...walking with her
As she TAKES me by the hand helping me to
Innerstand the more grand plans beyond this land
Let her do the teaching
And I'll do the...
#daughter
#Autism
#fatherhood
1490 reads
32 Comments
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