That was beautifully written.... And very sad, but yet I see alot of myself in there, in fact, its pretty much exactly the same in my life except for a few spots.
I think it would be wonderful if some Aspies with the gift to express themselves with poetry, songs, or art would get their work to become famous. I think there ARE alot of NICE NTs out there who do understand - to some people, our sad stories just warm and break their hearts, but the cruel NTs do not understand (this is especially true of school life). I have never really been a poem writer, but I think I want to express myself sometimes in song or poems instead of just long blogs or posts. Even though I'm an artist, I primarily draw and design characters, but I never draw an art piece to express my life and feelings. I think I want to try these things....
You have inspired me, and I want to try my hand at a poem or song. It can really warm peoples hearts and I think they would be more likely to read it and be moved by it in poem format instead of long posts.
I can NEVER really understand any humans who feel like bullying and being mean to others because they are different. They have no idea what it feels like to be a lonely outcast and feel like you don't belong to this planet, but are forced to live in it anyway. They have no idea what it feels like to have all these pressures and expectancies put onto us to act a certain way or understand how people think or how things work - it is like there are hidden rules which everyone automatically knows, but we have to work harder and specially at it to practice it and try to be acceptible.
I do want to add, I also felt like I had been very warm welcomed and accepted at certain message boards of my interests for a good while. I think they found me unique and a breath of fresh air. I was even popular for a while. But overtime, I guess, my unique traits just became tiresome and annoying to them, and what would happen is people would come out seemingly in PACKS attacking me. It felt horrible.... I was being called a freak and all these insults came out of the blue, and I couldn't understand why they hated me so much if all this time people were on good terms with me.
BUT, there were the FRIENDS I had made there who were always on my side, and they had added me on their MSN list. After I was through with the board, I could still talk to the nice people through MSN messenger. Who IMs you specifically to HURASS you?! Thats horrible! MSN is really a safe haven for me, because I have my friends who already know all about me and LOVE my quirks, and they are pretty original people too! I dont even know if some of them have AS or not, they seem pretty normal to me, one of them is really over the top whacky. I don't know if she has AS or if shes just ADORABLE, but I love her. lol. I've definitely been hit on ALOT on MSN, especialyl if I go on webcam. Alternatively, no one ever gives me the time of day in person, and many a jerk comes out online too on some forums and especially public chat, so I avoid them as best I can.
I hope you block those jerks and just stay in touch with good friends...
And thank you very much for the lovely poem.