When healthcare doesn’t have a primary objective to negate itself through obsoletion. It upholds a power imbalance using the people it serves as foundation in maintaining this nexus.

I’m passed by
an anomaly
Novel to some
An abhorrence to others
I carry a message
The words of the voiceless
unheard, overlooked & undervalued
I maybe quiet as I watch the world pass by
Don’t mistake that for apathy, incomprehension or submission
I absorb all that I’m absorbed by
I make my own way

If I’d been told about sensory processing, double empathy & cognitive processing, 19 years ago; our lives would be very different.
knowledge allows autonomy, and advocacy. Instead of yet another horrific statistic of systemic failure.

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Autistic empathy