Autism awareness poetry

 Autism and Depression

Depression is no more different in people who face Autism or other problems, disabilities, etc than people who face depression who don't face disabilities, etc.

We excepted to be treated no different from other people.

However, most of us are likely to take longer to come to terms, well learn to live with negative situations that may bother and upset us compared to other people. 

We may be low in mood, feeling hopeless, feeling as if life is not worth living,  a lack of or too much energy and sleep, etc.

Either trying to avoid people in their lives or trying to be around them too much. 

Struggling to even focus on things we enjoy or have to do things all the time to keep ourselves sane. 

Depression affects people in different ways, which can vary from too much of something to too little whether it's good or bad for them. 

From my experience, the way you feel can vary on and off through the day from wanting to do things a lot to not wanting to do anything, I have even found in myself, the way I feel can swap and change in a matter of days, weeks, months even years. 

This can happen for a reason no reason at all, feelings of sadness, anger, etc come and go when it's going to.https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/topics/mental-health/depression

Positives of Autism.

Autism can be creative, poetic, Artist, and talented most of us if not a lot of us in different ways, are no more different from you despite we have our good bad days in different ways.

We express the good and bad in us and the world around us in our talent. 

We need a lot of support on a lot of things but there are also most things we don't need support such as 

speaking, saying, acting, drawing, writing, painting, coloring, seeing, hearing, sense, feeling, touching, etc for ourselves in different ways, although we may be able to explain and express ourselves in other ways as far as communication is concerned.

Most of us may be slow, struggle, etc in a lot of ways and things but we are not thick.

We don't always get upset and depressed.

We don't always get stressed, anxious, and angry.

We may struggle to communicate, socialize, and make friendships and relationships with others but it is not impossible.

Autism is not in our minds nor in our heads, Autism is real.

Autism is not in our minds not in our heads, Autism is real.

Autism is easy to think it is not real because it is mostly hidden so those who face Autism are not making it up, we should feel no shame, guilt, etc saying we have Autism too.

Never think it is in our minds nor our heads, no one lies.

We may feel we are misunderstanding you or you misunderstand us.

Autism never goes away but we do improve in our skills etc. 

Even though Autism is real, Autism isn't always negative, Autism can be positive too.

Our strengths and weaknesses are no more different than yours, we just may need more support than you, from looking after ourselves to creating talents. 

We think so we say nothing at all if we are afraid of the reaction of others but when we do speak, we speak the truth, our minds, and tell it as it is, it is not in our minds nor our heads, nor our imagination, only in what or and who inspires us and even in many cases can be real.

You may think we are strange because of our Autism.

We are all human, not everything is down to our Autism but not everything is on purpose either to what we do and don't do.

If we don't give you eye contact, we are not odd, we are unaware or and even shy.

If we don't answer to you calling our name, we are not rude not answering you, mainly if there's a lot of people making a lot of noise it is mainly because we are either not aware of you or and we can't always hear your voice.

Without meaning, we could be thoughtless and unaware of the world around us but we do not mean purposely to shut you out. 

We may put our hands over-ears, over our if we are somewhere busy with a lot of noise and a lot of people talking, etc.

At times we don't think or and unaware of the world around us but Autism isn't the reason for everything in our lives. 

For eg; we may not think to share or and take things in turns with people.

We are just deep in our own world without meaning to be.