Physical Education ; How To Feel Inferior
From my collection titled "Things I Learned In Middle School"
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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