“Spectrum”

Atypical
black
child
doesn’t
engage
family.
Granted,

autistic
boy
cannot
decipher
emotions
fully.
General

associations/
behaviors
concerning
disorder:
echolalia,
flapping,
grinding teeth,
hyperactivity,
IQ tests,
jumping,
kicking,
laughing,
medication,
neurological exams,
OCD,
poor eye contact,
quirks,
retarded?
Spectrum, speech therapy, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming, stimming…

Kendryk Youngblood is a former member of UH’s Poetry Slam team called UH Coogslam, which won 4th place in the Collegiate Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI), in April of 2019. Kendryk has had his work published in Issue 4 of Shards magazine and Defunkt magazine