I can't tell you how happy I am to be able to find what I've been looking for--fellow brothers and sisters in Christ who are also Aspies!
I was so worried that there weren't many people like myself. For a while I thought that I could only be one or the other--either a Christian or an Aspie. Like somehow if I was going to be a Christian I had to "become neurotypical" and "cure" myself. It took me a while to realize that I didn't need to do that at all. But I was still a bit lonely. There are all these stereotypes about people like us, and one of them is that we're either atheists or "fundamentalists", because we're just "incapable" of anything else. Like we just don't belong in God's kingdom
But, as seems to be the case with me a lot, I was wrong. I am an Aspie, but more importantly I'm a Christian who just so happens to have Asperger's. Lately it's been hard to just accept my condition and move on--I've known about it for years, but I feel sometimes like there isn't anything else to me. But there is, and I just want to find it and let God use it however He needs to.
May God bless all of you!
As to how my AS has helped me serve Christ, I'm not really sure yet. I know that my social skills are a bit...manageable, as in I can have a conversation if I really set my mind to it (although lately I haven't had many opportunities to do that), but I feel like my ability to write (I want to write stuff, maybe fiction or non-fiction, not really sure yet) plays a big part.
And if I need to be, I'd love to just be a bridge, metaphorically speaking (we Aspies know how to use metaphors, I don't see why people think we can't!). The Aspies of my generation are all addicted to nerdy things. Nothing wrong with being a bit of a nerd, but they're letting their whole lives run around it. And let's just say it's not going well for some of them.
They need Christ badly so that they can figure out that they have a REAL purpose in life, not just some hobby. Since I sort of know what it's like to think like them and feel for things the way they do (that most other people wouldn't care about), I feel like I'm in a position to reach them.
But I really just came to say thank you all so much for basically existing!
It took me a long time to figure out, but eventually God told me that I was never alone after all. He told me one night that He loved me in a strange sort of way...and because of that, I've finally been able to really love Him back. It's a wonderful feeling, to be free of all of the bitterness and hatred at the world. I want every Aspie to feel this way. I want them all to know that God loves them, even if the world can never really understand.