"Wired Different 🎤 — not broken, just built different. #AutismAcceptance" [Intro] (dusty vinyl crackle, boom bap drums fade in, upright bass loop) Yeah... they never asked how it feels from the inside I'ma tell you... [Verse 1] Grew up in a room full of noise I couldn't filter Fluorescent lights buzzing like a warning, I'd hear it Teacher said "focus" like I wasn't already trying Ten conversations at once and I'm barely surviving Eye contact felt like static, like staring at the sun They said I was rude, I was just overrun Stims got me steady — the rocking, the pacing The hands that keep time when my mind's out of pacing They called it a phase, said I'd grow out the weird But this is the wiring, this is the gear Not broken, not less, just a different design Reading the world in a whole other line [Hook] Wired different, still I'm building my own map Nobody's blueprint, I write my own track Mask coming off, no more hiding the facts This is my mind and I'm owning that (x2) [Verse 2] Twenty-something before I got the diagnosis Spent my whole life thinking something was toxic About who I was — turns out I just process Different than the room, not less than the room, promise Sensory overload, I gotta step outside Not dramatic, just my nervous system's got a tide Special interest deep dive, three hours gone Y'all call it obsessive, I call it a song I'm loyal to a fault, I say what's true Small talk kills me but I'll go deep for you So if I don't do eye contact, don't take it wrong I'm still here, still listening, still strong [Hook] Wired different, still I'm building my own map Nobody's blueprint, I write my own track Mask coming off, no more hiding the facts This is my mind and I'm owning that (x2) [Bridge — spoken/half-sung, drums drop out] No, I don't need fixing I need a world that listens No, I ain't performing "normal" for your comfort no more This is the real version [Verse 3] To the kid who's stimming in the back of the class To the one who's masking just to make it past You ain't alone, and you ain't too much This whole world just wasn't built for us But we adapt, we build, we find our people too Community of minds that see it different, that see it true So I'm putting down the mask, picking up the mic Wired different, but I'm living right [Outro Hook] Wired different, still building my own map Nobody's blueprint, I write my own track This is my mind, ain't hiding the facts Wired different — and I'm owning that
