Confessed autism
Honesty not always best
Some non-autistics scared
Think we violently meltdown
Read: murderous
(Witnesses doomed to burn)
At best we seem stiff
Read: weird
(Because we don’t like the touch of strangers)
At worst, we seem iffy
Read: untrustworthy
(Because we don’t march cadently)
How about that occasional
Inappropriate comment
Sorry, I thought it was funny
I see it’s not
Hey, where you going?
(Another friend lost)
So where are all those people
Who want to mainstream us
Struttin’ around
Writing books and speeches
Raising money
But will you be my friend?
Will you hang out with me?
“We’ll get together soon…”
Yeah, I heard that line
From a Harry Chapin song
Read: NO
So seems I was smart
Being in denial for years
No one ever knew
But then, I woke up
Thought I could be true
To me and you
But here’s my realistic view:
Sometimes it is better
Not to emerge from
The autism closet
Unless you have a superpower that others want
Read: fame, fortune
But some days you’ll know
Who the real friends are
And they will appear
Mysteriously
To brighten your days…
© 2017 Clarissa Simmens (ViataMaja)
IMAGE: CLOSET (Pinterest: no attribution)
