Not Real

On disability, orientation, gender, and sex deemed non-existent.

I hear the chanting in the back of my mind. I don't exist.

From doctors, from family,

from peers, from politicians,

 from super store toy sections and the neat line down isles

sorting antiperspirant

into genders.

Fox News panels debate whether or not my sexuality exists.

Leagues of doctors have decided 

my disability is not profitable enough to be taken seriously.

Bring in the experts, my gender is unfounded

call the police: this one doesn't fit into the sex binary 

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I threaten the safety of the neat category delusion

I threaten the system designed to keep the disabled easy to deal with in schools.

I have to prove every aspect of myself to earn the right to be recognized.

I have to be the best in order to be half valid. 

R e a l i t y is shaking

S e l f  p e r c e p t i o n is arguing with itself.

When you're told you're not real long enough

you star t to b e l iev e you r e a li e

heroes in duster coats won't save    reality     now

why would they try when

I'm Not Real

faker

trender

special

n o t  r e a l

a phase

sick

it's all in your head, dear

your disease is just stress, dear

f**k you all

Reviews

[I Am Svetlana]

People disgust me when they feel different sexualaties other than straight are 'just a phase'. They don't understand that it's nothing like that. We grow up to be who we want and it shouldn't matter if we fall in love with someone of the same sex or not. It's our decision in the end, screw other people's opinions. This is a new generation from what our parents and relatives grew up in, it's okay to switch things up, make things new. We should be free to be whoever we want, however we want without having to face constant criticisms from those around us. It's our life, not theirs!