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Hi all, Just wondering about this.
if a young person with autism is rejected/shunned/discluded. due to their lack of social skills or inability to initiate friendship, is the rejection deserved?
how can someone with autism seek to be healed from the wounds of rejection when their rejection was warranted because of their condition?
"deserved" or "warranted" aren't the right words. "consequential" is a more accurate term.
if you don't develop social skills the consequence of that is you will run into trouble in terms of social interaction.
Absolutely not.f a young person with autism is rejected/shunned/discluded. due to their lack of social skills or inability to initiate friendship, is the rejection deserved?
That answer would be the same if you are suffering rejection from autism, or the color of your skin, or your accent, or how fat/skinny you are, or how tall or short you are, .......how can someone with autism seek to be healed from the wounds of rejection when their rejection was warranted because of their condition?
indeed, but I was not diagnosed or offered social skills training as a child, so it must be that God sovereignly allowed the circumstances of my childhood to occur. for whatever reason, only he knows.
k,
1 Corinthians 10:13
so are you going to put in the work to improve yourself in order to have a better life or not?
just sayin'I find your candidness quite endearing
Since elementary school, I have beaten this by associating with other Aspies. (And this was before I ever even heard about Asperger's.if a young person with autism is rejected/shunned/discluded. due to their lack of social skills or inability to initiate friendship, is the rejection deserved?
Instead of blaming God for your circumstances, why don't you ask YHVH Rapha if He might heal/fix them? Even if He doesn't choose to rescind your autism, He is still willing to fix your surrounding issues...., so it must be that God sovereignly allowed the circumstances of my childhood to occur. for whatever reason, only he knows.
Instead of blaming God for your circumstances, why don't you ask YHVH Rapha if He might heal/fix them? Even if He doesn't choose to rescind your autism, He is still willing to fix your surrounding issues.
"You have not because you ask not." James 4:2
What makes you think that all of your circumstances are ordained (as they are)?because he ordained my circumstances, he is sovereign
Hi all, Just wondering about this.
if a young person with autism is rejected/shunned/discluded. due to their lack of social skills or inability to initiate friendship, is the rejection deserved?
how can someone with autism seek to be healed from the wounds of rejection when their rejection was warranted because of their condition?
by the grace of God I actually have a lot of friends, People consistently tell me that they like me and that I am "sweet" and "lovely"...ofcourse there are those who dislike me for whatever reason.
but in spite of these appraisals and my apparent strong social life...I am still a very wounded and depressed person. I hate the fact I have autism, i HATE it. I do not want to be different. there is something about me that is as yet unhealed, insecure, feeling unloved.
I also struggle with the message that God made me this way, i can understand that in his sovereign purpose he allowed me to be born autistic, but it has brought me nothing but pain and grief
So then, you believe that God ordains sin also?because he ordained my circumstances, he is sovereign
Hi all, Just wondering about this.
if a young person with autism is rejected/shunned/discluded. due to their lack of social skills or inability to initiate friendship, is the rejection deserved?
how can someone with autism seek to be healed from the wounds of rejection when their rejection was warranted because of their condition?
Hi all, Just wondering about this.
if a young person with autism is rejected/shunned/discluded. due to their lack of social skills or inability to initiate friendship, is the rejection deserved?
how can someone with autism seek to be healed from the wounds of rejection when their rejection was warranted because of their condition?
I don’t know if I believe that.indeed, but I was not diagnosed or offered social skills training as a child, so it must be that God sovereignly allowed the circumstances of my childhood to occur. for whatever reason, only he knows.
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