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Mask

by アラン

faces pressed hard against frosted glass face shapes, indistinct bleached of expression distorted by breath condensed why choose to suffer like that frozen to the outside of distorting glass separated by that pane division you refuse to submit to? when every smile is unaware where there are no windows on the soul who you are a concrete set I resonate because on this side too there is identity, pulse, that quiet sense of self pushing harder into the ice believe some locks can be unpicked
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60 / M / Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
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Written by
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60 / M / Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
Published
Nov 9, 2024
Time
2m
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In 1995 I was diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome, sometimes known as "High Functioning Autism" (I hate that term as it diminishes individuals that are as bright and beautiful as anyone else, but communicate in a different paradigm). Explaining to someone with whom I had fallen in Love that I had Aspergers, she asked "What is it like?" - I struggled to answer straight away, and in the end wrote this to try to explain. It is imperfect, but I wanted to communicate not only what it is like, but why I deal with it in the way I do.

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