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Prison Blog

In which Possum recounts his experiences as an offender in the system.

Possum Bones is autistic. He has identified as a dirty kid in the past, and he’s attended multiple rainbow gatherings. He has several years left to serve in the Washington Correctional system.

He has been making art since he could sit up. He communicates better in writing than speech. If you are interested in the experience of an autistic person doing prison time, check out his Prison Blog. If you are a fan of comic art, underground/outsider music, Lovecraft, Clarke Ashton Smith, Murakami, Cixui Liu, etc.

Facts

I never was a happy person and I'll never be a happy person and that's just who I am.  It would be that way even if I never went to jail.

In fact, now if they ever let me go at least I'll have accepted my lot in life, and my pain which is something I never was learning to accept before. From now on, my birthday isn't September 13th, it's January 15th, the day my time is counting from.

I understand all I want in life was to be left to my own devices, i.e. playing videogames, doing drugs, and generally being left alone like a hermit.  But I've learned something; I was born with a gift/talent that I wanted nothing to do with.  I learned through meditation what I was supposed to do and ignored it.

Elisa Carlson