Can you understand poetry as a person on the spectrum?

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I don’t like reading or writing dialogue because our words seldom represent what we’re really thinking. It always seems stilted.

Poetry is music to my ears. Once you find the metre the rest should flow effortlessly.

Other examples of art music and poetry hitting home at how one might be feeling Vs words alone

There are many different types of poetry. Rhyme is easy - nothing to understand, really.

Most poetry is written in verse. That gives it structure, which makes it easier to analyze. This can help us recognize things like imagery and metaphor.

As a student of ancient history, I learned that most Hebrew and Greek poetry was written in repeating patterns called parallelisms. It could be a straight parallelism (ABCABC) or a chiasm (ABCCBA). I found that I have a talent for recognizing these patterns. I wrote about the poetry I found in Genesis in my book, Return to Genesis (Amazon).

Conventional poetry is fine - haiku is crap.

Haiku has no meter or rhythm or rhyme, just a format.

I can understand and enjoy a lot of poetry. I have little trouble getting metaphors, though not all poetry is metaphorical. I remember as a child disliking metaphors - I probably had a more concrete way of thinking in those days but I got better at understanding metaphors as I grew older. So I can do both now. I suppose I'll always be better at precise literal and concrete communication, but I can do the other stuff fairly well, and it does seem to add something good to life. Which is more appropriate depends on the reason for the communication. Metaphor is more about playing with words, usually, but sometimes it gets a point across better than literal stuff, so it can be quite functional too. It's very good to play, as long as that's not all you do.

I usually prefer poetry with a strict meter and accurate rhyming, but sometimes I notice exceptions that seem better. I like things that break rules in a good way.

The once was a poet named Issy
Whose deft use of words made us dizzy
She wrote dirty puns
Which were second to none
And she twisted our pubic hairs frizzy

The limerick's form is complex
Its topics run chiefly to sex.
It's famous for virgins
And masculine urgin's
And vulgar erotic effects.

poetry is almost always about emotion and it is very very difficult and upsetting to me. I was trained to suppress and hide my emotions for most of my life and exposing them in any way scares, upsets, and overwhelms me. I understand it but I don't read it because it upsets me too much. I avoid violent sounds and images as well, for the same reason. I am too easily overwhelmed by emotions of others and my reaction to them. I seem to have no emotional thermostat that allows me to view or read things that happen to others, even if imaginary, and to be able to tell myself things like "its only a movie" or when viewing horrifying content to tell myself it happened long ago and the person is no longer suffering, etc. it simply doesn't work. So instead I avoid most media and other input such as poetry, sick and twisted books, graphic stuff, etc.

I think poetry is about awareness more than feeling.
It's an awareness of the environment, of sensation, of time and space and thought.
Good poets don't even name emotions.

Does Dr. Seuss count as poetry?

When we were younger my brother liked to write poems that made zero sense and annoy me to death by reading them and sadistically enjoying my irritation and confusion. He said real poems never rhyme and always have some really deep meaning that you're not supposed to get the first time you read them. I think this was his way of telling me I was slow, inferior and uncultured or whatever. Good times.