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Transformative Autism Education - Day 16

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Apr 16, 2026
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This piece maps the conditions under which perception stabilizes. Forms don’t resolve—they emerge, overlap, and dissolve. It’s not a representation of mind, but the architecture through which experience arrives.

there is no room

only the way the walls decide to hold

when I lie on the floor
the ceiling roots downward
becomes soil
becomes lattice
becomes something with memory

light doesn’t land
it grows

you could call this imagination
but that would imply it begins with me

and I am already inside it
not inside
not outside
just where contact happens

someone asks what I am

the question arrives first
bends the space
tiles shift
edges soften
corners begin listening

I try to answer
but the answer reorganizes before it finishes

I am not the thing
I am how the thing stabilizes
briefly
as it passes through

again

no origin
not because it was lost
because nothing here starts

everything enters mid-pattern

garage becomes forest
concrete breathes
weight distributes differently when observed

there are lines
but they don’t stay lines
they…

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