My Autism, A Poem

Out there, exposed like a nerve

To joy and beauty

Out there in the world

To feel every morning

Pain and joy and beauty

Feel it all so deeply

Never take the world for granted

See hints of its deep patterns

This is my gift to You!

By David S. Annderson

This is how I feel the world!

Thank you to Alan Menken and Steven Schwartz for their song 'Out There' from Disney's Hunghback of Notre Dame which helped inspire this!