If someone asked you what it meant,

What would you say?

‘A disability,’ one said,

‘Not able to dance, sing and play.’

Is that true?

I’d say to you.

Or have you just forgot

Autism is not as simple as you thought.

If someone asked you what it meant,

What would you say?

‘It’s the brain,’ somebody said,

‘It doesn’t function well at day.’

Now that’s not true,

I’d say to you.

Though their brain is not like ours

It still works well,

And makes them special,

They can do anything with their powers.

We’ve got a routine for life

They take it by the day

If someone asked you what it meant,

What would you say?

A poem written by a sister of an autistic boy, age 12