Okay, we’re obviously against the ‘but autistic people can write poems,’ logic in this house. So instead, let’s dust off the I Robot ‘can you’ meme and go from there. Have RFK jr write a poem. Then, all of us autistic folks will rip that poem to shreds. Everything wrong you can think of, from ‘your theme is bland and there is little language to support it,’ to ‘line five has a spelling mistake’ to, ‘It’s just not my kind of poem.’

Then he has to write another one. Because clearly JFK struggles with an essential life skill and needs to work on that. He needs to keep writing poems until he can write the best poem ever created that can please every autistic person on this entire planet.

What’s he going to say? ‘You’re trying to force me into a box?’ ‘My brain isn’t built for this activity?’

Welcome to our world!

As someone who really likes poetry and has been a judge in kids writing competitions, this sounds really fun. :)

Ya know, the more I research historical figures, the more I think that a lot of ‘geniuses,’ we’re just people with a fair amount of intelligence who loved the world so much it hurt. (Da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Emily Dickinson, etc. tag your own.)