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(FOX NEWS INSIDER) - The National Autism Association (NAA) shared a 10-year-old boy's honest and heartfelt take on a classroom poetry assignment.
Benjamin's mother explained that the teacher asked the students to write a poem, entitled "I Am."
"My 10 year old son with Aspergers was asked to write a poem for school titled 'I Am' he was given the first 2 words in every sentence. This is what he wrote..." she said.
Benjamin's poem (above) read in part:
"I am odd, I am new
I understand now that so are you
I say I 'feel like a castaway'
I dream of a day that that's okay."