A Litany For Neurodivergence

Inspired by “A Litany for Survival.”

For those of us whose brains don’t “properly” function

Whose minds sway with the winds of stress

Whose head panic dissects

It is not happiness that gets to be addressed

Because anxiety like a vail covers our reason

And our mind unentertained commits treason

Sabotaging our success

Utilizing duress

For those of us whose lives were changed

By a slice of tree that arbitrarily defined range 

Who've become intimate with pain

And referred to as insane

Because of our mind

Who can’t unwind

Because unbridled 

awareness will not let us ride

And our body won’t abide

By the rules we´ve set

For those of us who don’t get to dictate our future

Whose independence was stolen from us

Because we didn’t take the same bus

To maturity as the rest of our generation

Always being trailed by apprehension

Lurking monster of time

Whose presence in a classroom is considered a crime

Whose movements are classified as disruptive

Whose brains are eruptive

And feet and hands uncooperative

Who are stashed away from the rest of society

Whose schools preach selective propriety

And don't want us to achieve notoriety 

Because we are perceived as a barrier to the rest

Of the students success

You are different, not less

Even if no one but me believes that.