Autistic Songs

Alan Griswold

Bicycle Built for Three

Autism, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (manic depression) are listed separately in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, but a discerning eye will recognize the commonality among all these conditions:

Each is classified as a mental illness without any evidence of sickness.
Each is diagnosed through behavioral characteristics instead of direct etiology.
Each manifests a cognitive perceptual focus distinct from the species-driven norm.

These three conditions are eerily similar, and to a misunderstanding humanity, they ride past as triplets in crime.