No matter how bad I felt,
enough to cut my face and body,
enough to make me scream inside, to scare my mother with fears of my life
I took you in hand, gave you more social life than I ever could say.
Two times a year, more than I ever said I could handle up till then
Everything I gave you each day,
thinking that it would be appreciated with a hug forever, and I remember you said it was zen
it was the same way to me, and I gave you the hug forever and ever
Everyone [in the family] told me to push you away when you showed up on the step unannounced, twice
I would have none of that and I gave you the effort you made with the same.
They said it wasn't fair [to me], the pain with such little gain, they said
So what? I'm only autistic. She knows that. She is that she said! She said it's fine how I am. She said she doesn't mind not living with me. She said it was fine with a visit a year (till then, the tune changed after #1). She said forever. She said abnormal when I said, never normal. She said she'd never leave me. I let her know how fragile I am, due to past events and innate differences. She said...it all.... Everything to gain. I said it all, though who was it that always came home to you? Who would always come home to you. Everything to lose.
I understand that people require different levels of the same
I do, and I now know that is you
if you had told me before that it wasn't part of your game
it would have saved all that pain
this simple pixel rain
You probably don't know this, but I toned down how much I gave you in words after that first year and I knew you'd always be near, even with living on the other side of the world, or even the moon. It was, and still was up till you broke everything you said, more than I am in person; seeing you twice a year took so much from me.
The other side of the coin, if you told me early, I could have wished you well without this hell.
But without that, I don't know what to feel: The best you could get? I don't want to feel that; I like to think you wouldn't feel that towards me. Hoping that I'd change and improve, no matter who and what I am and who and what I constantly said I was and am? I think that is it, and that you really loved me when you said you did, but you just wanted then to be always; I refuse to see you as mean enough to feel any other way. I can't see you choosing anything shallow in me.
I made mistakes, more than I can say
but I can always say I was forever dedicated to you (I still am, but that's probably because I'm abnormally ill)
Desolate, drained, destroyed, devastated.
Broken to begin with, born without all the parts, given some parts, said parts taken from and smashed, and the collateral damage from that breaking that which is already broken. Forever broken.
Four/five years almost nonstop, suddenly stopped. Lost pretty much everything before you, lost pretty much everything with you; I cannot even look at myself, my genuine friends, without hating myself and what we did to them (I specifically). Yes, I hate myself, but I still love you; perhaps that's the point.
Just know that when it ends, I won't be there. I wish I was strong enough to help, and it's strength; you don't know what's it's like to lose the hug to another.
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