Dear Normal People (Denice Frohman "Parody")

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Dear Normal People:
Who do you think we are?
Do you have to make it so obvious that we make you uncomfortable?
Why do we make you uncomfortable?
Don't you know that it makes us uncomfortable?
Now we're all uncomfortable!

Dear Normal People:
You're the reason that we stay in our own worlds;
It's not that we don't want to be in your world,
But, sometimes, you make your society an uncaring place,
So we feel like an alien on our own planet.

Dear Normal People:
Neurology and behavior: two different things
related in many different ways.
If you've ever laughed at an unfunny joke, you'll understand.

Dear Mass Media:
Why are you so fascinated with autistic killers?
Some autistic people kill, just like some non-autistic people kill;
Some autistic people save lives, just like some non-autistic people save lives.

Dear Normal People:
I find it difficult to believe in an anthropomorphic portrayal of a divine being that is capable of having a certain neurology,
But if God did have a brain, he'd be slightly autistic himself--
Why else would planets spin?*

Dear Normal People:
I'm tired of proving that my way of being is authentic,
So I'm calling for reparations:
When were you diagnosed as 'normal'?
Why did it happen to you?
Did it happen because your parents vaccinated you?
Did it happen because your parents didn't vaccinate you?
Did it happen because you were born on the third Wednesday under Capricorn?

Dear Normal People:
Why do you have to stare at me when I'm rocking back and forth like I'm about to bite you?
Dear Normal People:
You make me want to flippin' bite you!

Dear Normal People:
Who decided that you were "normal," anyways?
Don't you know that if you had been born fifty years in either direction
That you'd probably be seen as a "freak" too?

Dear Autistic Allies:
Thank you-- more, please.

Dear Bullies Of Outcasts:
You're right; we're not like you--
You find ugliness in difference,
We find science in it--
Tell me,
What happened to
Alex Spourdalakis
Melissa Stoddard
Jaelen Edge
And too many others?**

What happened to those treated with violence
Out of the fear of them being "violent"
And those forever subject to silence
Out of the frustration of them being "silent"?

Did you notice that ignorance
Is alive and well in too many newspapers,
Passed out like candy by too many broadcasters
To too many well-intentioned people
Who just don't know better?

Dear Autistic Young Girl:
I see you.
You don't want them to see you
So you read every pop-magazine article you can on etiquette and social manners
Just so your parents don't complain about you playing at recess alone.
Again.
I used to do that.

Dear Normal People:
You make smart children take bad advice.

Dear Normal People:
Being able to walk down a street at night, alone, without the police getting suspicious,
Is a luxury that we do not fully have yet,

But, today,
We are high on our hopefulness,
Flap our hands on the busiest afternoon bus,
Rock back and forth as though no one is watching,
As though no one is pulling their children away from us,
Praying that they will not be like us,
And imagine that those children will grow up in a world
Where "normal" is just a word used in physics books to describe forces
And where aliens can crash-land into society and be greeted with smiles--
"I know that you're a little different,
But you know what? That's okay
Because this planet
Can be your planet, too."