tom wrote:
I feel very suprised when I see Christian aspies on the net. I just don't understand how you could reconcile that belief with who you are. Seeing as lots of religious people believe God "speaks to them", does he ever provide an apology or explanation as to why some people have to have asperger's, or any condition or disability?[/i]
There's a lot of differnet ways you could argue that. One is that the ultimate religious truth is much closer to Buddhism, that we're here to experience the world, and that it's all a learning process. In that case we've been almost everything else and just hadn't gotten arround to being autistic yet (an astrologer told my mom that I was an old soul almost done with his journey and I've talked to other aspies who heard similar things).
The other possibility - were just another sign of the decay of genes as well as humanity via original sin. I really don't know much about the sceince and dynamics of sin in relation to that and christianity; I was raised catholic and the focus was more on what we 'should' do rather than shouldn't. Still, it's an interesting theory, it deals with essentially bad chi or feng shue brought on by all this, and says that in a perfect world without sin that everything is ligned up. I don't know which branch of christianity this comes from but it definitely sounds like something interesting enough to read about, especially sense it seems almost as viable the way I've heard it explained so far (that and for me, it seems to tie into string-theory quantum physics pretty intuitively).