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10-Year-Old Writes Amazing Poem About Life With Aspergers

10-Year-Old Writes Amazing Poem About Life With Aspergers

Awesome.

Mel Ramsay

Mel Ramsay

A young lad who has Aspergers has penned an incredible poem about his experiences.

Benjamin is only ten years old, but the post is going viral due to its honesty and, to be fair, how beautiful it is. It really makes you appreciate how different things can seem for those with Aspergers.

His mother wrote "My 10 year old son with Aspergers was asked to write a poem for school titled 'I Am' he was given the first 2 words in every sentence. This is what he wrote..."

It reads:

"I am odd, I am new

I wonder if you are too

I hear voices in the air

I see you don't, and that's not fair

I want to not feel blue

I am odd, I am new

I pretend that you are too

I feel like a boy in outer space

I touch the stars and feel out of place

I worry what others might think

I cry when people laugh, it makes me shrink

I am odd, I am new

I understand now that so are you

I say I, "feel like a castaway"

I dream of a day that that's okay

I try to fit in

I hope that someday I do

I am odd, I am new."

Amazing. Well done, Benjamin.

Words by Mel Ramsay

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Topics: Autism