You can never understand me.
You missed it
Through many a young year.

It is constantly checking
For things that will trigger
A meltdown
And yet
Only alike people can truly understand what it means,
Why I flap, tap, rock.
I flap because of noise.
I rock to blow my anxieties away.
I tap to create a rhythm amongst a busy background.

Speaking is a thing through written words
That conveys
Emotions.
My speech can be difficult for people to understand
And it can be scattered
But I show them best
Through words,
My raw emotional pain
Whose only release is to write.

You will never understand us fully
It is possible to understand at times.
And, finally,
People are more aware
Of us
And our needs.

We see the world differently
All of us
Ever changing day by day.
So I know
All disabilities aren't visible
But we are one
And it doesn't make us less human