Does autism affect your relationship with God?

[rachelrising]

@rachelrising, I wanted to send you a PM about your new topic, but you have to adjust your permission/privacy settings to be able to receive PMs, or PM me first.

Sabertooth, thank you for your very kind offer. I do not though have anything more to say on that. I do not want to read more on it to start a thread. That was all I had to say. I have looked though at this thread and posts still were posted on of a diverted nature. I plan to take a few days out as well so will not be present.

 

[weepingwillow422]

Do you feel your symptoms of ASD (anywhere on the spectrum) affect how your relationship is with the Holy One? Do you have doubts about being a Christian because of your uncontrollable demands for logic as we see it and all sentences having a literal interpretation?

Sometimes I have trouble connecting with God but I don't really know if it is related to ASD. I think it is more related to my depression and anxiety. While I am a logical person, I have no issue taking the bible in its literal form. In fact, as both a logical AND creative person (one of my college professors once told me I am a "creative scientist", meaning both the creative and logical parts of my brain are equally strong), I can appreciate the fact that God does things in ways our limited minds can't grasp or understand fully. It only makes Him more awesome to me.

 

[Earthbear]

My sister has Asperger's. She's doing extremely well in life, she's in med school at a top school now. But yes I think it's a barrier to her faith.

She does believe in God bc our family believes in God. She went to church growing up bc it's what we did. She doesn't have a literal interpretation of scripture bc our family doesn't. I think it would be MUCH harder for her if we were fundamentalists who took scripture literally instead of a lot of it as allegorical.

HI,

Do you think Canada is friendly to people with autism?