Leo in Bloom Magazine

The Trifecta of Autism

You long to say hi but nothing comes out and you sit eerily in silence trying to keep your cool
You want to have friends but have no idea how to cross that chasm so you wait eerily alone
You dream of languidly piecing together a puzzle all day but it is too confusing so you sit eerily bored
Essentially your motor planning is frequently fragmented and you are left performing painfully programmed
Routines and rituals that have emerged over the years through endless repetition, always the same steps,
Which often don't compartmentalize into the fluid lives we live on the quivering watery blue earth
I am living my life with regressive autism which long ago stole those all too mundane skills from me
Leaving behind a teetering concept of what a mentally wounded human sounds like, feels like, and acts like

- Shaun Canas


Editor's note: I love the portrayal of the chasm, that abyssal distance, between our minds and bodies, and our hearts and how the world treats us. For many of us, our lives are spent trying to cross that chasm. We are intrepid travelers in this realm. Thank you Shaun! - Danny