Contents:

• Words in Pictures (poem)
• Everyone Does That! (essay)
  The difficulty of being tactful when you have AS.
• An Alien with Asperger's (article)
  Living with Asperger Syndrome
• Alien Parenting - A mother with Asperger's Syndrome (essay)
• What Have You Got Against Rainman? (essay)
  A criticism of the portrayal of autism in a popular movie See also: Anna Hayward's Website

Words in Pictures
(written as an 18 yr old student)

I paint pictures with my mind.

The pictures in my head are beautiful.
But when they are painted in words,
They lose their glory.
They seem shabby
And half-baked.

What a pity my poems,
Are so much better in my mind;
And that my words are more of a
Poor interpretation
Than an accurate translation
Of the brilliance inside myself.

What a pity reality is
So much less gorgeous
Than the Paradise
Inside my head.

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