Remember when I showed you poetry? Well, here's another poem I wrote that has shades of autism in it. It's much less straightfoward... (I think I wrote this while pretending to study for an evolution exam. But I'm not 100% positive. It's probably not all that relevant, either.)
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eggshell speckles
broken shells held together by membranes crumbling
and the amniotic shell
evolutionary advance
invasion of land by the tetrapods
amphibians
frogs
pollution
factory smokestacks spilling dark clouds of black that sinks
down over the world like a blanket
or a chloroform-soaked rag
smothering the innocent
by a malevolent hand
see how easily my train of thought is derailed
by something as simple as word associations
or a penny, left on the track, for some reason I never
understood
and I know that I don’t understand
how my mind works
or how any mind works
Especially
how other minds work
I
can find the connections and follow some strings
connect
some puzzle pieces
find
patterns at least
correlation
not causation only
only
with me
Because other people are:
strange
different
(not from each other but from me)
undifferentiable
inexplicable
unpredictable
Labels: autistic?, me, my brain, poetry, Random, words