Poetry

The ordinary club

Ordinary people are vague
I have executive functioning issues

Ordinary people ‘wake up on the wrong side of the bed’
I have difficulty regulating my emotions

Ordinary people ‘don’t get it’
I have no theory of mind

Ordinary people love their car
I have an unusual fascination with inanimate objects

Ordinary people have a party trick
I am an ‘idiot savant’

Ordinary people live their lives doing the best they can.
They go to work, study, raise kids, go on holidays and nobody much notices.
When I do any of these I am ‘an inspiration’

Apparently I don’t belong in the ordinary people club
No, it’s true.
I belong in the extraordinary people club
Which is altogether more satisfying.