DDCPoetry

  Poem Found Here: " If You've Met One Autistic Person, You've Met One Autistic Person" by  Tom C. Hunley Definition through actions and then questions.  I feel the conceit of the poem is how the saying applies to someone personal.  If someone is autistic how much does the label apply to the individual?   The form of the poem is a rondel .  This is my first time encountering a rondel, I think.  But the repetition in the poem forces us as the reader on how the repeated lines work in the poem.  But first the title, "If You've Met One Autistic Person, You've met One Autistic Person." is a common saying which  refers to how autistic individual is not a blanketed term as  Mary McClellan, Executive Director Autism Pensacola, describes  in her article, " If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism." : That’s because it is as unique as the individual who is affected by it. It’s not a one-size-fits-all disord...