Poem: "Transplanting Gramps"

[ysabetwordsmith]

This poem came from the February 5, 2013 Poetry Fishbowl.  It was inspired by a prompt from DW user Chordatesrock.  It has been sponsored by Anthony & Shirley Barrette.  This poem belongs to the series An Army of One: The Autistic Secession in Space.

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Another thing to make public

[chordatesrock]

This comes from the discussion we had about the use (or non-use) of the word "autism" within the poems of the series:

I was assuming that the reason these people were able to get into the military was partly because they weren't diagnosed with anything. I was assuming that they were unstudied anomalies in this universe, and that the secession was the beginning of recognition of autism in their universe. See also: our universe, which allowed some people with autism to serve in the US military before the wider recognition of Asperger's syndrome, but barred them after it became apparent that this was something potential recruits might actually have. It will also help you gloss over or avoid altogether the implication that your characters (at least, the ones who appear more normal) would have spent their childhoods in therapy. I don't know of anything good that would come of making autism explicit in-universe, except the possibility of secessionists with special interests in autism.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>Always good to have someone around who opens up the mind to things that previously hadn't occurred to anyone.<<

Sooth.

>>Possible correlation with Court Jesters/mind altering drugs?<<

Hmm ... I don't know. There's so little social cohesion at this early stage, it's harder to see who's on the outside of the society.

the wisdom of the elders

[anonymous]

I don't know whether Gramps would appreciate it, but I'd love to give him a great big hug. He's done something wonderful and altruistic, and I'm glad that the denizens of the Lacuna have enough sense to realize that.

Now, just imagine if Aidan Spencer from Polychrome, could make his way to the Lacuna...

- Callibr8

Re: the wisdom of the elders

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> I don't know whether Gramps would appreciate it, but I'd love to give him a great big hug. <<

:D Oh, probably.

>> He's done something wonderful and altruistic, and I'm glad that the denizens of the Lacuna have enough sense to realize that.<<

Sooth. But it's good for him, too, having a society of his own. Even for the people who don't move there, it gives them an option.

>> Now, just imagine if Aidan Spencer from Polychrome, could make his way to the Lacuna... <<

He's marvelously adaptable and very wise. He could teach them a lot. But I think they'd find him very confusing.