OK. I’m on holiday and it is starting to show. I messed up my arbitrary themes by days of the week and did a poem about a stranger for “family friday”, instead of doing it today for “stranger saturday”. So here, technically speaking, is yesterday’s poem, about a member of my autistic family: my pseudo nephew Cai, who always tries to share his special interest in computers with me, despite my appalling level of ignorance.
❤️🌹Happy Autism Acceptance Month!🌹❤️
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There’s so much to explain. Your eyes get wide
And sparkle as you earnestly begin
To share with me the world that pulls you in,
Although I’m looking from the other side
Of some abyss. I cannot understand
The language that you speak, the words you use.
Your explanations leave me more confused:
A baffled tourist from a distant land.
But though I’ll never fully comprehend
Your operating systems, crack your code,
You’ll let me play it on “beginner mode”
Share with me what you can. And in the end,
You’re far more understanding, patient, kind
To me than those with unautistic minds.
Tom Juniper Poetry 