Louis Gibbs

THE CRIPPLED

No one has to tell a person born with one leg

They won\'t be able to run races like others.

 

No one has to point out to a person born blind

They shan\'t experience the sunset like others.

 

No one has to explain to a person born deaf

They can\'t appreciate a bird\'s song like others.

 

However ...

No one tells a person born with

(Undiagnosed) Asperger\'s Syndrome

That the world is a very hostile place for

One with the extreme sensory sensitivities

Characteristic of being in the autism spectrum,

 

Then when the condition is finally realized and

The awareness of the fact that the psyche-shattering

Sensory overloads suffered throughout the span of

A lifetime was not at all the norm as once believed,

 

It finally dawns that this life so bewildering

Has merely been spent in its entirety as,

Just another cripple.