A Poem Called "Nothing About US"

Nothing About Us,

by theamazinJ

Founding art,
founding poetry,
founding film,
founding paints filled with colors,
filled with everything that serves us,
speaking with our tongues,
voicing with our fingers,
hearing with the perimeters of what we can hear,
seeing what brilliance everything has in store for us,
moving our bodies whichever way we go.
Because it's nothing without us, and nothing about anyone else,
it's about life and living and striving for our own self-determination.
Nothing about us,
Nothing without us,
Nothing ever comes between us and you and anyone,
we strive to keep our dignity,
we respect everyone who tries hard to maintain respect,
keeping our mind common hope, to love, to hate,
I love you, I hate you.
Every time we live it's either love or hate every part of the day,
but most importantly,
it's about what love we can keep and what hate we can let go.
Relationships come, relationships go,
take the masterpiece to the fundamental truths of matter,
to the relations of who we are,
because in the end,
it's about us, it's about life, and it's what matters most
building life, liberty, and common practice of what we all know,
the body we live in, the mind we were given,
and the talents we build to surface the world with
and make the difference we have with what it takes
to live however we feel and want.
No one takes that away,
everyone must find it for themselves
regardless how they see,
regardless how they hear,
regardless how they feel,
and regardless how they emerge with their inspirations.
Everything goes from one thing to the next,
we speak with what we've got and how we can at the time,
and from this day forward,
forget about inspiration of who you are of who I am,
forget about tokenizing or passing for what others want,
and just remember to have the attitude
to be who you are with what you want with what you have
and remember to take everyone's opinions as a grain of salt
because that's all that is, it means nothing,
and one day when you're sitting at the door
waving goodbye to the world ready to leave,
you'll remember
Nothing about us, without us,
you'll remember you lived for you, not for other's and their opinions,
and you lived for everything you wanted
without letting any part of the your masquerade
passing in society become influenced by anyone.
Leave it at that and cross and fade and pass through the curtain as that.
and one last thing,
say 'Thank you' too.

A Poem Called "Token"

A Poem Called "Token"

I am me.

I am not your token.

I am not anyone's puppet.

I am not your way to live under your conditions.

I am not passing for your social constructions.

I am myself.

I have my own mind.

I have my own talents.

I am a disabled person.

I am an activist.

I am a filmmaker.

I am a poet.

I am not you.

I am a scholar.

I am a changemaker.

I am being the thoughts that come out of my own mind.

I am my own higher mind.

I read every day many books and articles.

I have passion to change the world's current perceptions of disability.

Token, I am not satisfying you to be something I am not.

Token, I am not fitting in as something you want.

Token, is what you are, but I am not.

I pass for myself.

I pass so you need to accept.

I pass for furthering the goals of my life.

I pass to be who I am, not you, or you, or you.

I hope you can understand.

I hope you  can accept me.

I hope you understand my goals to being what I want.

My goals are not to accept what you want from me.

My goals are to be supported by you and you and you  and you.

I have my own visions.

I am rising to the top.

I am forthcoming my energy to make the best of me.

I need support you.

I have a network of people who like me, love me.

I have a network of people who understand.

My films are great.

My new film ideas are forthcoming

based on what I read and the world around me.

I have my own way of doing things.

Passing is a masquerade everyone gets to choose what they want 

and what they want the world to remember them by.

Some choose to pass for what other people want,

while others pass for what they are originally.

As an Autistic and Neurodivergent person,

I pass for me. I pass for me everyday. I pass for me all the time.

Passing is you. Passing is me. Passing has different choices.

What you want to pass for, I pass for what I want to as.

We cannot tokenize each other or anyone

to pass for the other, to pass for something you want,

or to pass for something else other than what we are.

Passing is genuine to the person.

passing is a masquerade individual to everyone.

and, passing is what everyone wants,

from passing as disabled, to passing as neurotypical, to passing as non-disabled,

passing can be misleading when everyone has their own neurodivergences,

their own psychiatric, neurological, and cognitive disabilities.

when everyone has what it takes when they are born,

when everyone grows differently,

and when everyone lives their life the way they want to.

People will understand in due time.

People will accept themselves.

People will open their minds.

People will live everyday with what they want.

Advocacy for being true to yourself,

sometimes makes people uncomfortable,

sometimes makes people angry,

and in the end, makes people think and process

that everyone can pass for their own,

as masquerade or ball showing the world 

who they are, and what they can do, and why they need support.

This is it. This is me. and This is everything in between.

Amen. Thank you. And listen to yourself.