Alyssa Hillary Zisk, an Autistic AAC user-researcher, blogging about life, the universe, and everything, especially their life. (The answer is 42.)
Still writing as of 2026, just mostly elsewhere.
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Rules
Words,
Syllables,
Ideas.
Metaphor,
Simile,
Symbolism?
Or do I dare refuse
The statements
Of what makes writers?
Am I not the writer I think I am?
Or are the rules not so hard as you believe?
Holy S--t Alyssa! You beat me to my own poem. Years ago in college as a Lit. major I learned about the many different ways of judging/rating a writers work. Flow, grammar, popularity, profoundness, depth are just a few. Some even contradict each other. Art is so subjective. It may be even more difficult for us (Aspie here) as communication is often challenging, especially with neurotypicals and in person. I remember sometimes showing classmates my work and at first being accused of plagiarism because they thought it was so good. I guess they thought that if I was so bad at talking I must be bad at writing too. Especially in poetry, "rules" are not absolute.
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Holy S--t Alyssa! You beat me to my own poem. Years ago in college as a Lit. major I learned about the many different ways of judging/rating a writers work. Flow, grammar, popularity, profoundness, depth are just a few. Some even contradict each other. Art is so subjective. It may be even more difficult for us (Aspie here) as communication is often challenging, especially with neurotypicals and in person. I remember sometimes showing classmates my work and at first being accused of plagiarism because they thought it was so good. I guess they thought that if I was so bad at talking I must be bad at writing too. Especially in poetry, "rules" are not absolute.
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