World Autism Awareness Day on April 2, celebrated the unique talents and skills of persons with autism. In recognition of this event and Autism Awareness Month, we are showcasing the writing of talented individuals on the autism spectrum on our website. Please send your short stories, poetry, and song lyrics to
editors@autismspeaks.org
for consideration. Autism Speaks reserves the right to edit contributions for space, style and content. Due to the volume of submissions expected, we may not be able to publish them all.
This is just to say
I have just bored. The horse was gone. That was in.
The bird was singing.
And which Your were probably Saving For a car.
Forgive me. It they were a cat.
So a parrot can talk.
And so the rock was real.
Alex is fourteen years old. He has Asperger's syndrome and wrote this poem for a school project.