I AM WHO I AM

POETRY BY: JOSEPH MAXWELL SPENCER

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I am a word-fact thinker

According to my autistic traits

My brain focuses on words

By instincts of its very nature

It picked out regularities in words

Like a fish exists in water

I thought about words

I talked about them

I wrote words down on a daily basis

I am fixated with words

I love to celebrate words

At every transformation of words

In the creative manifestation of words

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I am a pattern thinker

According to my autistic traits

My brain picks out details

In its natural habitats

A large database of memories

In maintaining and making associations

My thinking is non-imaginative

It sees details in creativity of events

I see patterns in everything

The world is like a programming tree

My brain operates like a code-breaker

To make sense of my reality

And to seek to adapt to my social life

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I am a High-Functioning autistic

According to my autistic traits

I have my share of odd social approaches

With narrowly focused interests

I do not like reading fiction

They’re set of lies agreed upon

I like to research detailed information

About categories of things

For me autism is secondary

It certainly defines my physiological nature

I am an expert in social sciences

Aspiring research professor in health sciences

Coupled with aptitude as a technological inventor

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