I Couldn't Help Being Different Flashcards

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I couldn’t help being different.

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You might see a normal boy on the outside, but my brain is in a whole different world to yours.

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I have autism, it makes me more sensitive to my surroundings and the only way my brain can cope is to be very cautious about absolutely everything.

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But don’t think I am sad. I am satisfied with who I am, despite what anyone else thinks and I will always be.

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Some people don’t like me this way. I have understood that will be a battle I have to fight, probably for a life time.

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I have understood that will be a battle I have to fight, probably for a life time.

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In my infancy, I would be as quiet as a mouse around my home.

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In contrast my sister would always make a scene like an idiotic puppy.

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I would move past her without a word.

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Unsurprisingly, my parents were worried about my lack of sense of humour.

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Like madly twittering birds they bickered with each other.

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I was taken to a specialist then and diagnosed with my problem.

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As I progressed through school, I began to face problems.

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They all knew about my diagnosis of autism.

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Posturing parents, sneering students and teasing teachers tortured my brain with misery.

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I walked treacherous corridors like a crippled man waiting for death to greet him with kind arms. Classrooms were rooms full of brooding devils, waiting for people of difference like me to take as a new victim. Without any friend to turn to I suffered the daily torture of cruel comments. As if I were a toddler they would mock me like parrots and snatch my burdensome bag to graffiti it and to steal my possessions.

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I walked treacherous corridors like a crippled man waiting for death to greet him with kind arms.

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Classrooms were rooms full of brooding devils, waiting for people of difference like me to take as a new victim.

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Without any friend to turn to I suffered the daily torture of cruel comments.

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As if I were a toddler they would mock me like parrots and snatch my burdensome bag to graffiti it and to steal my possessions.

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But I am far away from this now.

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My family have moved to a village up north where emerald grass and gently swaying trees litter the landscape rather than shiny plastic bottles and cigarette stumps that provide the landscape of the miserable towns.

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I am now home schooled by my caring mother rather than a misunderstanding teacher.

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I feel safe anywhere I go.

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I can be me.

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I can make a new start to my life and be an average citizen.

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I am excited, more excited than ever before, about being seen as someone who is different but accepted.

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I hurt no one.

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