Why Can't They...

by Majikkstar

Rating: everyone
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Sad, Drama, Original Character
Length: 3172

Cork Screw is a special colt with autism, as such he has needs that are difficult to fill.

Cork Screw is a special colt living with his aunt and uncle.

He has troubles and life isn't easy, but he needs their help to survive day to day.

This is a series of moments in his life as he grows from a young colt into a stallion.

Published 2016-04-15 03:00:01 UTC
Last updated 2016-04-15 21:21:11 UTC

Colt - 1

I wake up to Auntie opening the curtains. It hurts my eyes and my wings move around, now I'm cold. I wish it would be more warm, but I live in the clouds.

Unkie has breakfast done. It smells good in the house. I have to go to the bathroom.

I ask Auntie, but Auntie doesn't speak my words. I have to move careful, or the floor jumps at me and hurts me. I need help.

I ask Auntie, but Auntie doesn't speak my words. I make the noise Auntie knows and Auntie's face gets sad. Auntie helps me to walk to the bathroom and Auntie helps me.

I almost didn't make it, but I did. Auntie was happy. Auntie helped clean me back there and help to wash my hooves.

I didn't get them messy, but Auntie said 'it is a good habit to keep'. I don't know what a habit is. But if it is good, and makes Auntie happy, I will do it.

Auntie helps me a lot. I really like her.

Unkie is very happy to see me in the food room. We eat on a cloud table and it is very hard, like the floor. It hurts if I fall on it when I am sitting down. Auntie had to shorten the table and make the big, sit, things go away. They're in the walls now. Auntie wasn't happy Unkie was making loud noises at her when Auntie did it.

I have a plate. It is made from not clouds. It is hard and loud when I pushed it to the cloud floor. Unkie said it was 'spensive magic plate. Now I have hard plates that fall through the clouds and go away forever.

My food smells good. Sweet and yummy. "Auuggmmmnng."

They look at me when I say it looks good in my words. Yum! It tastes good too. Crunchy.

I want a drink.

I WANT A DRINK!

Why won't they give me a drink? I will make a loud noise, they listen when I do that.

Now they are moving to me and talking words fast. They aren't giving me a drink. I will point to it, but I don't move my legs and wings so good, I will point with all of them! That is smart.

Ouch. Unkie is holding me tight. All I want is a drink with my breakfast of yummy crunchy stuff. They are making loud noise and words at me and each other.

I will make louder noise for my drink. I'm getting sad and mad. Why are they being this way and not helping me to drink?

Water? Juice? Soup water? Anything? Unkie, Auntie, please? My mind hurts from this, let me go.

You're scaring me, all I wanted was a drink, I'm sorry. Let me go. I will make a loudest noise so you listen!

...Auntie? Come back! Unkie will let me go and you can help me get a drink for my food. You won't listen because you don't speak my words, so I will make the noise you know.

Please, come back. Unkie, let me go or I will bite you. You let me go when I bite you, and I will.

"Ha!" You let me go when I bite because you don't know my words, but you know my bites. I will get Auntie and Auntie will-

Let me go! Let me go! Unkie, let me go. I want to get to Auntie. Auntie is crying, Auntie needs nuzzles. Then Auntie will get me a drink for my food, because my food is really good, but I am thirsty.

I will bite again. Again. Why won't you let go. I'm so frustrated with you. I will make a loudest noise ever.

... My body is tired. I can not get Unkie off me. Unkie is bigger and I am smaller. Unkie holds me tight and hurts my wings, but my heart is sad now. I could not help Auntie stop crying again. I don't like the red stuff taste when I bite Unkie. It makes Unkie mad and loud when Unkie lets me go. Unkie points to red on his white fur spot and makes loud noises and I am scared.

Why am I looking at the wall? There isn't anything here. Just white and blue a little. I see colors sometimes, a lot of colors in the cloud wall. They are all the colors. But they go away and I look at the white wall and feel sad. The colors left me like Mom and Dad. But, the colors come back sometimes and don't make loud noises at me.

OH MY HAPPY FEELINGS! My carts! Thank you Unkie! I will play with my carts, they are so much fun.

In the carts are my carts riders. They are moving the carts to places to shop and meet their mommy and daddy.

I like my carts. They are my best friends and make me happy. I make them happy too. Soon I will go in a cart to see my mommy and daddy and they will nuzzle me and not be loud, like last time.

Colt - 3

I love food time. I am very hungry. My wings are happy, too. Auntie and Unkie are happy. I have water and it is good with my vegetables.

Hello, Mister Long.

Hello, Fluffy Head.

I want to play.

Me too. Let's play and go on a trip to down there and the BIG fluffy heads.

Okay. I will go on my yummy cloud and fly to the the fluffy heads.

"Cork Screw, don't play with your food. Eat your carrots and broccoli. It's okay to dip them in your potatoes, just eat them."

They always talk a lot. 'Don't play with your food'. 'Don't run through the walls'. 'Don't eat the floors'. They tell me a lot of things that are hard to remember sometimes.

Mister Long does taste sweet and yummy. Mmm. Fluffy Head tastes... like green. The fluffy cloud they were on tastes sweet and salty. It's so good I want more.

More, please. I will push my plate, so they know.

Yay! They speak my words. Nummy.

...

It is warm in the house now. The star is at its celestial medium, minus seven degrees. That is a good time. They left the door open and I will go let the photons from the star wash across me and cause an endothermic reaction.

It is nice here. The walls are so far away I can not see them. I will look for them in the light of the star. I can not walk so good. My legs are not the same length in the back, where my tail is. The one is smaller and it makes it hard to walk, but I will get better. I will not use the small leg and -oof-. The floor is hard clouds and it jumped at me. It is called a fall, sometimes, too.

I see some other ponies in the sky, above me. Also many homes, like mine!

I will find my home and tell it there are its friends here.

Hello. You are a house made of clouds. My house is made from clouds. Can you help me find my house? You are quiet like my house is. I will ask another.

It has been a long time and it is very nice. The sun passed its celestial medium and is at eleven degrees. I need to go to the bathroom soon. I need to make colors and then feel better. Auntie will clean me and make me wash my hooves, even though they are not dirty.

I see lots of blue, I will go to it.

There is brown and green, I should eat some.

The wind is loud and my wings hurt from the wind on them. I am falling to the food. It will be good, I think.

Unkie! You are hugging me tightly. Are you going to give me the food there? Why are we going to the clouds again?

Uh oh. I'm sorry, I went. I feel better now.

Auntie? Why are you sad? Is it because I went not in the bathroom? Clean me, see?

Mmm. Nuzzles. I like nuzzles. Where is home? I want to tell home about today.

Yay! Home! I will tell you about today and the warmth of the star.

...

Thank you, Auntie for cleaning me back there. I will make the noise. We are both happy and I am not sad. Even Unkie is happy. The doors are closed and made extra hard with clouds again. I can not go outside now. I will play with my carts. Soon I will listen to stories and numbers from Auntie. She calls it 'school time'. It starts when the star is nearly forty-five degrees past its median until eating time. I eat a lot sometimes.

I will play with my carts now. They are the most fun friends ever.

Colt - 4

The sun has lowered behind the horizon and now the satellite is overhead. It is waxing gibbous and just above the horizon at 59 degrees azimuth.

I like the sky.

I am in a cart! I am with Auntie and Unkie. We are going somewhere and I am tied to the inside of the cart so I do not go to the fluffy heads far down there. I will taste them someday and they will be good. There are other ponies flying and we are going the same way. A big house without a roof? That's silly.

I want to go over there. Over there, Unkie! Look! Ugh, why can't you speak my words more times?! I won't yell, because you might go back and I will see it and know about it.

There is a lot of carts! Chariots. Wagons. Bronze, gold, vines and roots! So many styles and colors. If I wasn't tied I would touch each of them. Do they taste as pretty as they are?

"Yes, Cork Screw. Carts and chariots are over there; just like yours! We are going to a flight show and it'll be the best moment of your life."

"Bright Skies, don't encourage him. He probably doesn't even understand what's happening."

"Thunder, the doctor said we have to encourage him. He's still barely a colt, he can still learn."

"Yes, at the pace of a melting iceberg in the winter."

I do understand, Unkie. I just don't talk so good or move so good, yet. I have been watching the sky and the stars and if they can appear to move based on the planet's position in space, then I can move on my own, too.

It is loud here. A lot is happening. I can watch it all.

There is a pony with a clothes on. A lot of ponies have clothes on. And are flying a lot. Cotton candy.

I hear a whistle. It is loud. Where is it? A horn.

I am a little scared. Ponies are everywhere. More than I have ever seen before. I will hold onto Auntie's neck tighter. Balloons.

Laughing little ponies. Screams.

I will close my eyes. It is noisy. It hurts and is scary to see everything. Smoke.

I... Laughter. So much. Bells.

"Cork Screw? Are you alright?" Unkie asks me. I open my eyes to look at him and shake my head. That means 'no'. I don't understand. Chomping food. Giggling. Loud noises between ponies. It's... Too much. Happening. A horn close by.

I do not like this place.

Clouds being hit. Lightning and thunder. Colors. Ponies are so many colors, it's too much.

Yellow. I don't like this place. Green. "Ouch, Cork Screw, you're, hurting me. Not so tight." Blue. Crunch.

I want to go home. "Cork Screw, it's alright," Auntie says as Unkie pats my back. We're alone now. A room with doors and toilets. I see... Auntie and Unkie. And a blue pony on Auntie. I don't like that blue pony. Get of my Auntie. Auntie is mine. I tell and the blue pony tells me. I yell at Blue pony to go off Auntie and I hug Auntie tighter.

The blue pony hugs Auntie tighter. I will not look at the blue pony and blue pony will go away. "My Auntie. My Unkie."

"Aww, he's so cute," a new pony says after a flush sound. The new pony is many colors in the pony's mane. Wow, all the colors. I want to touch the rainbow. New pony is blue and smiles nice. New pony is like my carts and make me feel happy. The new pony lets touch colors mane while Auntie and Unkie talk to Blue Colors Mane. That is the name for the blue pony now.

"Pay, carts," I make noise like their words.

"He wants to play carts with you, it's his favorite game to play. I'm sorry if he's pulling your mane too much, let go, Cork Screw."

"Nah, it's cool. No other pony has a mane like mine. Hey, what'd'ya think about meeting the coolest mare in Equestria in the bathroom?"

I don't know what she's talking about but her mane is as soft as a cloud and messy as my bed. I like her a lot. I will climb to her.

"Heehee, he really likes my mane. Hey, sport, wanna go for a fly?"

"Oh, I don't think that's a good idea. He's, special," Unkie said.

"It's all good. I'm special too; the most special pony in the world! C'mon, champ. I'll take you for a quick trip around the Cloudaseum, your mom and dad can wait here, right?"

Mom and dad?! Where? I don't see them.

"Oh, we're not his parents. We're his-"

"Auntie, Unkie; mumn? Day?"

"Oh, I think I'm getting it now," Blue Colors Mane said, "I'll have to go extra fast to show him what it's like when he gets his wings working."

I am flying very fast with Blue Colors Mane. It is not scary with Blue Colors Mane and I am not tied so I can move. Over there, go that way.

Blue Colors Mane understands my words. I am happy. What is over there? What's that? Popcorn. What? Ponies, so many. I don't- Smoke smells.

"You're tensing up, squirt. Let's loosen your nerves. Hang on."

"Eeeeee!" I am laughing so much! We are making circles like my cart's wheels make when I throw them for fun. Blue Colors Mane is my favorite pony ever. "More. Agin, Agin!"

"That's the spirit! Let's do a double cork screw with a barrel roll, finished by a star burts and dashing trot."

Whatever Blue Colors Mane said it sounds like fu- "Eeeeee! Ah-hahahahaha! Blue Colars Mane!" Her laugh is nice, like Auntie and Unkie, both. I feel. "Free."

"Yeah, that's why I love to fly. I feel so cooped up like a caged animal when I can't fly, this is where the world can't hold me back," Blue Colors Mane said as she glode, "it's the one place where I can be free of everything. When you learn to fly you'll know what I mean. But, I've gotta get ya back to your family. The show starts soon and I'm not gonna miss this one. Soarin and Fleetfoot are going to race. I've got my bits on Fleetfoot."

I want to see what Blue Colors Mane sees, but I, it's too much. I want to go home. "Home. Scury," I point way down below us at the, everything happening. Blue Colors Mane is very smart and thinks a lot. She understands my words.

"Yeah, I get ya. Hey, I'll drop off my info with your family, if you're ever near Ponyville, look me up, huh?"

"Food, nom-num."

"Dinner time? Hey, how 'bout I buy you some cotton candy? Sounds like you'll miss the show, but you should have something to remember it by."

Blue Colors Mane bought me a cloud and Unkie said it was alright to eat. It was super awesome and no whisp burps, or farts. I also got this cool wagon to play with. It is blue! Just like Blue Colors Mane. It is my favorite cart. I am glad to go home, now my friends have a new friend, and so do I.

Colt - 2

I have been playing with my carts for a long time. Where is my food? I am hungry and thirsty and I didn't get to eat a lot because something happened. Whatever it was I didn't get to eat a lot and now I'm hungry and thirsty.

Unkie, where is Auntie? I am so frustrated you don't know my words. I am thirsty. I make the noise and now you know.

Yummy, juice that is lots of colors. It is good, I will take it in my hooves and show Unkie I am strong and big for when Unkie comes back from seeing Auntie.

Uh-oh. It fell and made a mess. I will eat the clouds and they will not be loud at me. The clouds taste not bad, but not good. They taste like my juice, too.

All clean. The cup was maked from clouds, so I ate it too, but the fun straw fell and went away forever. Now I am not very hungry, but my tummy feels bad. "Heheehee."

I am burping and making whisps. It is funny. I will play with my carts again and they will play in my burps. They will laugh with me.

Hi Auntie. Look. Look! I have whisp burps. You are happy when you laugh. Come back, I can't run after you... Auntie left me. Forever? Am I alone now? How will I go bath? Or foods? Or drinks? It is you and me, carts. Take me to foods. "Bvrrum." Fly through sky, fast and fun. Whee!

"Hehehee." (Gasp) Look, carts, Auntie is back with Unkie! Auntie is making happy noise at me. My carts? My mouth? I don't -Urp- understand.

Oh~h, my whisp burps. Auntie likes them. Unkie isn't smiles though. I will make a big burp of whisps for Unkie. Unkie is loud a lot when I am loud he acts different. Come on big whispy burp, where are you?

-Pbbbltblpttbt'eee-

That, wasn't a whispy burp, but Unkie fell through the floor when Unkie laughed so much. Auntie made a little yellow clouds and flew from the room with her tail down. That made me happy that Auntie was happy.

Unkie is back! Unkie hugs me nice and laughs at the whisps around my tail. They stick to my hairs and won't go away and Unkie makes more happy noises. Oh! Auntie is here and Auntie is nuzzling! I love nuzzles from Auntie.

"You're such a special little colt. We love you so much."

I understand their words and their words make me happy. Someday, maybe they will understand my words and be happy.