Incommensurable
Frank L Ludwig
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in mankind.' John Donne
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As a progressive traditionalist, I took up poetry where it left off - the Industrial Revolution - and brought it right into the Neoapocalyptic Age.
I am also an art and landscape photographer with the largest Sligo Collection on the web, and my work has been exhibited at the Iontas and the North West Artists Exhibition in the Sligo Art Gallery.
Being a man in Ireland, I was not able to find work in my vocation for eleven years until 6248
RT (2007 CE) when I became the first male childcare worker in County Sligo (equality, as you know,
is a female monopoly).
Late in life I realised that I am autistic (accounting for my extraordinary skills as a childcare worker and poet as well as for my failure to fulfil the pesky social expectations of mainstream people) and subsequently got diagnosed at the age of 50.
Over the following decade I gradually figured out the exact nature of autism and why mainstream society is so opposed to it, culminating in the Deindividuation Resister Hypothesis. ('Our intellectual advantage and our supposed social deficits are two sides of the same coin, and any attempts at "correcting" the latter will diminish that advantage. […] It’s our failure to conform to society, it’s our failure to think the way others think, it’s our failure to subscribe to group dynamics and groupthink, it’s our failure to give in to peer pressure, it’s our failure to blindly follow tradition, it’s our failure to unquestioningly obey authority, and it’s our failure to accept the status quo that have driven human progress for tens of thousands of years, thanks to autistic individuals who successfully resisted attempts at being mainstreamed.')
For those interested in my life story, check out my autobiographical Growing Up Autistically.
I also offer to mentor autistic children and their parents in Sligo for free (contact me if you're interested).
For those who wish to order my poems in print, my collection At the Banks of the Garavogue (the Sligo poems, with many photographs) is available for €16 at Lulu.
You can find the links to all my works and photographs on the navigation bar at the top and bottom of this page.