PHYSICAL EDUCATION- HOW TO FEEL INFERIOR
How do you grade participation.
Really,
how is
success or identity divisible by speculation and why, at any point, should I be forced to believe that a stranger knows
my body better than I do.
I am not a woman or a man based on my muscle tone and no, I won't just grow up or out of my devout belief that I know what I need more than any person who has chosen scorn in spite of science.
Sports
are just big, fat metaphors for the competition in life, and much like
anything else in the world- they are easier to excel in if you perform at status quo.
Who are you to question and who am I to know why I am unwilling or just plain DON'T fit the “standard”.
Climbing ropes
can be graded achievements or really bad metaphors
for hope depending on how high the child climbs or how far the curve slopes as each new generation favors imagination over image.
Who I am is not
divisible
by a stigmatic binary that supports the principle that I am anything that starts with "not" whether it be capable, sought after, or even, simply...
myself.
About the Creator
AJ Ryan
Poet. Thinker. Artist.
Born in the midwest, raised in the southwest, rooted in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains. I am autistic, chronically ill, and only occasionally an optimist. I'm here to scream into something other than a void.
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