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Johnny Profane Âû
@johnnyprofane1.bsky.social
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One Voice. Raw. Real. Fiercely Neurodivergent. Since 1953.

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Find Me on Social Media: https://linktr.ee/johnnyprofane1
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About 400 or 500 in two different sites in Bedford, Indiana.

About 13,000 population.

Not bad.

#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Honestly, I hope for the best.

Fighting the fear.

Stay safe. Stay weird. Stay fierce.

#NoKingsInAmerica #Neurodivergent #ActuallAutistic
October 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Caption anyone?

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September 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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“There… there. that smudge in the sky.”

UFO Cult. Chooses Suicide. Thirty‑nine bodies in matching Nikes.

A short from a live reading—faith, grief, and what families do with impossible signs.

What do you think they saw in the sky?

#Autism #AutisticAdult #SpokenWord

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September 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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How would YOU communicate thru a short-circuiting transistor radio?

Plain language becomes revolutionary.

My live piece explores dancing close to the edge of the noise.

#WritingCommunity #SpokenWord #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD #DisabilityPoetry #WriteSky #MentalHealth #Neurodivergent
September 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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From the Amazon book, “every clock is a handgun pointed at my head”, songs of autistic innocence… and experience.

#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticElder

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September 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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From my upcoming collection - spoken word about one common autistic experience.

When you can't see faces clearly...

Yet still find human connection.

Full video: johnnyprofaneknapp.substack.com/p/living-tru...

#BookSky #AutisticAuthors #NeurodivergentWriters #ActuallyAutistic
September 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Mental health includes handling neurological differences.

Like not processing faces. Even those of your loved ones.

Sharing my experience of human connection beyond surface recognition.

#BlueskyMentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthAdvocacy #NeurodivergentMentalHealth #MentalealthPoetry
September 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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How do you write about loving someone whose face you can't see?

When clinical terms fail to communicate, rhythm & rhyme fill the gap.

My live piece explores finding connection thru 'a swirl of flesh-colored fog.'

#WritingCommunity #SpokenWord #Poetry #DisabilityPoetry #WriteSky #MentalHealth
September 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Not remembering faces isn't being 'bad with faces.'

It's navigating human connection through other senses. My live piece about loving someone you can't see.

Full video: johnnyprofaneknapp.substack.com/p/living-tru...

#Neurodivergent #Prosopagnosia #NeurodivergentCreatives #AutisticAdult
September 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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At 72, diagnosed autistic late, I wrote this about not seeing faces.

Something 36% of us navigate daily.

'A swirl of flesh-colored fog / That's my wife's face in dreams'

Full video: johnnyprofaneknapp.substack.com/p/living-tru...

#ActuallyAutistic #FaceBlindness #AutisticElders #LateDialgnosis
September 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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August 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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“every clock is a hand gun…,” Amazon Book Release 8/18

Subscribe now. aAll subscribers receive a free PDF with every word, every image. Paid subscribers support my work… and also receive a free printed copy.

#ActuallyAutistic #MentalHealthPoetry #DisabilityPoetry
August 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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What I would have told my autistic son...

In the alternate universe.

Where I had one. Cuz life went different.

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THAT SONG I’LL NEVER SING TO MY SON Like some angel With a dislocated shoulder Half f l y i n g H a l f falling Younger to older From the day I was born. Tumbling to earth Rushing up below Body on f i r e H e a r t aflame In s l o – m o , a horror picture show… To a silent piano score… Like that song I’ll never sing To my son. Like that song Like this song…. Don’t be a dick Real talk… It’s harder than you think… Listen up, listen up… Maybe… Don’t mask… protecting others Don’t please yourself Less than bosses & lovers… Hold up… Most of all… Don’t forget To have a kid Like you might Forget That call-in contest You just knew You could win Cuz you knew all the words…. Gimme a minute. I need a minute… Stay safe. Stay weird. Stay fierce. Like some angel Thrown outta heaven H a l f falling Half f l y i n g From what should’ve been… The day I was born. Like that song On that game show… That I’ll never sing… To that son I never had Hell, Like this song.
August 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Going thru color conversion to CYMK. Not my favorite part. But last step before pub.

Front & back covers for "every clock is a handgun pointed at my head: Songs of Autistic Innocence... and Experience."

Coming at ya on Amazon... & free PDF to new subs.

Any minute now... time what a concept.

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July 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Going through color conversion to CYMK. Not my favorite part.

Front & back covers for "every clock is a handgun pointed at my head: Songs of Autistic Innocence... and Experience."

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July 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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coming at ya. on Amazon. And as a gift to new subscribers. in a day or two... or three...

My autistic poetry... direct... layers .. but no hidden meanings.

#ActuallyAutistic
Digital book cover by Johnny Profane Âû, "every clock is a handgun pointed at my head." Textured background with scattered photographs and postcards in collage style. Title in typewriter font suggests urgency, anxiety. Clock imagery throughout reinforces time pressure themes. Images include vintage clocks, shadowy figures, "SUPERPOWER FREE ZONE" sign. Raw, authentic aesthetic reflects autistic experience poetry collection. Handwritten elements add personal, unpolished feel. Evokes memory fragments, time anxiety, lived neurodivergent reality. Digital tools included AI
July 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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July 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Pictures. Thousand words. You connect the dots....

#NoKings
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Meme shows WD-40 can ad, with rolling tanks against a pink background. Text reads, "America's #1 choice for squeaky wheels!"
June 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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We don't need no stinking mentors.
Or coaches.
Self-help books.
Neurodivergent gurus.

We need to develop our own folk culture. That supports our needs. And pass it on to our children.

You know... like humans do.

#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AutusmAtWork
Digital photo of street art mural on cream wall showing woman in dark clothing with raised fist, expressing defiance and resilience, holding a child's hand. Readable text includes '#IEP,' 'NEVER SURRENDER - 2PAC,' 'resilience,' '#JUSTBEREAL.' Stenciled crouching figure bottom left. Black railings foreground, green grass, school buildings background. Digital tools included AI.
June 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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I wrote this about LA & #NoKings just this Sunday. Shared my concerns...

But I'm more urgently concerned after military & court moves yesterday.

Please read or listen? Share with friends who might care?

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Text reads "I need to talk with you about events beyond autism today."
June 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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AI... & most non-autistics... notably caregivers & researchers... can only know published data about my internal experience.

This can lead to pain. From a kind of arrogance of false certainty.

I need your help to find words to express this.

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A surreal mechanical skull composed of colorful gears, clock parts, and intricate machinery in psychedelic colors of teal, purple, yellow and pink. Text overlay reads 'My Autism Is Surreal... Help Me Fight That?' with subtitle questioning research, media portrayals, and false certainty. The fragmented, time-distorted imagery represents the disconnect between clinical understanding and lived autistic experience.
May 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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The fact that we look just like them? doesn't help.

To straight society we look... maybe speak... too MUCH like them.

So we autistics inhabit that same "ai-generated uncanny valley" that freaks them out so much. Handsome... with extra fingers. Professionals... with our Dockers on backwards.

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A dramatic photograph of a traditional Japanese Noh theater mask lying on a cracked concrete sidewalk. The mask is cream-colored with intricate carved lines and patterns, featuring a wide-open mouth and elongated eyes with dramatic shading. The mask is positioned in the center of the frame, surrounded by small pebbles and stones scattered on the ground. In the background, there are blurred figures of people walking, with their feet and legs visible at the top of the frame. A single yellow autumn leaf lies near the mask. The concrete sidewalk shows weathered, broken sections with visible cracks and patches. The lighting is natural and muted, creating subtle shadows beneath the mask. The composition has a moody, artistic quality with the mask as the clear focal point against the urban street setting.
May 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Poem text finishes, "No mask hides The pain in life, So no words can Explain my fight. So, let me Be… come Shameless."
May 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Poem text reads, "Stalking Death Valley Same sister… now dead… to me Same stars… chill my shoulders Now living life perfectly Shameless… Shameless. Oh let me be Shameless… No peak caps An aimless life, And no grave ever filled By a blameless knife. Oh let me be… come Shameless…"
May 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM