Week 1 Daily Create: Today Is a Double Speak Day

Today I choose the poem from a ten-year-old boy with asperger's syndrome to finish the task from DS106. This poem reads:

I am odd, I am new

I wonder if you are too

I hear voices in the air

I see you don’t, and that’s not fair

I want to not feel blue

I am odd, I am new

I pretend that you are too

I feel like a boy in outer space

I touch the stars and feel out of place

I worry what others might think

I cry when people laugh, it makes me shrink

I am odd, I am new

I understand now that so are you

I say I “feel like a castaway”

I dream of a day that that’s okay

I try to fit in

I hope that someday I do

I am odd, I am new.

Let's love each other, let us have more tolerance to each other, and let us embrace being different, Written on the night of Florida shooting.