excerpt from “Yes I Ache to Answer the Call (a manifesto of yes)”

The call of the talking people

to answer about autism

is one I avoid

like the way people avoid me

in all my autistic wonder

Say yes to the way of difference

Say yes the way I do

to the other people

who ask me to peacefully

understand them

needing support

Say yes to sour candy

Easy ways to say yes

are the ways of love

and openness to all types

of doing and being

and peaceful ways pacing others

call the ways to say yes