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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.

The one-eyed man is king

Just stood around watching 3 people argue about who has the worse sex offense out of them and whether certain drugs are " homeless drugs " or not. Because this one douche said " never done this that or the other , and I've never been homeless ... " I interjected to say you know what's a homeless drug ? Alcohol. That's a homeless drug. If you drink the way I drank, no one will put up with you ... of course he disagreed ... then they all proceeded to argue about why they're better than each other because of their sex crimes. So I just stood around playing fire emblem . And I'm like wow like ... Almost everyone around me is really on a sex offense ... Its especially because people that get sex offenses who are homeless tend to get failure to register ... but ... still. Maybe if I wasn't in h5 which is supposed to be a skill building unit but is really a dumping ground for people who can't deal ... its kind of a PC unit ... because of that... But really all of Stafford is a stand down yard and might be looked at as PC. So, its highly likely that its like this in a lot of the other units too . And ... Its weird for me because there's this association where if you're an SO its like you're a punk. But in actuality its got nothing to do with that . I have only one felony, manslaughter , and I am not a confident fighter or even a masculine person. When it comes to hand to hand combat I'm a softie. When it comes to aggressive social intimidation tactics I'm no good, and I'm no good at seeming like someone you don't want to fuck with. Yet I'm one of the only people around here with a charge that isn't a sex offense, I'm one of a handful of people here who've taken a life... a thing I'm not proud of which also, incidentally, says nothing about my physical prowess. Politically, that should make me higher in the prison caste system than SOs. But almost everyone here is an SO. And, also, the only thing that actually matters in that hierarchy is who can I make think I'll beat up. Which is also not something I am good at doing, and not something I really fancy either. Sometimes I'll have to have the talk with people about it and I'll be like ... Look, I'm not perfect you know ? I'm not judgemental about peoples charges. If I was who would I even talk to ? But I'm not a sex offender. People don't even believe me at first because I look like a bitch and because even the baddest motherfuckers around here are probably a rapists. Its terrible.

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