We autistic are a group of people,
scattered across the world.
Those who don’t understand us
leave us out of the conversation.
We accept who we are.
Yet, they call what we have a disease,
a grand flaw.
They fear what they don’t understand.
Understand this,
we have a curse and a gift that we are bound to keep.
A gift we must embrace.
We will never submit to the ones that don’t understand.
We will never submit to what they want.
We will never submit to a cure.
We will be supported by our families
and by our brethren around the world.
Even if a cure is administered,
it doesn’t heal the history of hurt.