I am --------

This is a poem that criticizes labels. I myself was diagnosed with all of these diagnoses and I this is what I think about them.

I am _______.

 

I am Autism.

Present from early childhood,

makes it hard to communicate,

make friends,

and fully appreciate idioms and metaphors.

I am Epilepsy.

My brain sends abnormal electric currents,

and I shudder.

I am Hyphothyroidism.

My thyroid gets to work late,

it’s so lazy,

it should be fired.

I am Strabism.

My eye wanders in all directions,

never settling, always moving.

I am Anxiety Disorder.

I can’t keep still,

relaxing is not an option,

fear- my constant companion.

I am Depressive Disorder.

A passive suicidal thought,

here and there,

mostly sad, that is all.

I am Motor Tic Disorder.

Eyes won’t stop blinking,

looks like I’m crying.

I am Abstract Language Disorder.

Idioms and Metaphors,

I don’t get them.

 

I am Social Pragmatic Disorder.

Language is hard,

and my social skills are defficient,

now you want me to combine them?

I am Developmental Motor Coordination Disorder.

I trip and I fall,

What a monstrous lack of coordination!

Proof of clumsiness.

I am Sensory Modulation Disorder.

I focus way too much,

whisper, and I won’t hear you;

talk, and I won’ hear you;

scream, and I will hear you.

I am Labeled.

I am different.

I am aware.

I am defined by my weaknesses.

 

How can this be?

Are we all this way?

.

People defined, not by what they have,

but by what they lack or have too much of.

A society defined by the “normal” standards.

Slaves to their labels, knowing well their limits

What they should be

What they shouldn’t be

To be in the norm, or to not be the in the norm

That is the question.

 But just what is the norm but the impossible?

Reviews

[ASHIDASH]

This is wonderful. I love the structure.

[Isa Ruffatti]

Thanks, something I love about poetry or writing in general, you get to decide the aesthetics, how it looks.

[ASHIDASH]

That's true but I'm really bad at building up structures from a poem as you've done. You need talent to do that. Cheer up! you have the talent.