sinsboldly wrote:
sillycat wrote:
Todesking wrote:
Why wasn't cursed by the gods added to the list? Who else would make you lonely but hate being around people?
It is like what a god would do to someone in a Greek tragedy.
Or you could look at yourself as given a gift from the gods that came with a lot trials and ordeals to over come to really enjoy it.
>>> When I return to God, I'm going to ask him what kind of sick bleep is he for creating disorder robbing me of a precious childhood, etc etc etc. I'm a believer, but not a follower. If others want to believe that's their democratic right.
goodness! What a difference in attitude and opinion we have! I had often thought when I got to ask God what was the matter with me all my life I would understand my difficulties in living other people didn't seem to have. When I was diagnosed as Asperger's Syndrome when I was 56 I felt I HAD HAD THAT TALK WITH GOD and now understand what it was going to take death to know. I rejoyce that I know, now, and am utterly grateful to my idea of a supreme being for being able to intellectually understand what is up with me.
You see, nobody promised me a 'precious childhood'. Nobody said I wasn't going to be born into child slave labor or slaughtered by some group or other while a child, or some other fate that is common to more children in the world than a 'precious childhood'. So, I could have been better treated, and had an easier life, you betcha! But it was never my 'right' to have anything else than what I got.
I am grateful to have found out before death, because I have no idea if I would have known after death at all. . .
Merle
This. This right here. I was unaccountably blessed by being born into the United States, during the latter half of the 20th Century. In another place or another age I might have been burned as a witch, or left in a clearing as an infant so the elves would bring the real baby back. I could have been born in Rwanda, and been chopped to pieces with a machete (or merely horribly mutilated and left for dead) for belonging to the wrong ethnic group. I could have been born a Jew in Poland in 1940, or as one of the children of Czar Nicholas II.
Instead, I was born into a prosperous, relatively peaceful society, too young to be drafted into war, too old to wind up in Iraq or Afghanistan. The worst I had to endure from my so-called peers as a child was hazing and physical abuse - nobody was sincerely trying to kill me, or even just remove body parts. Having AS is relatively mild, compared with so many other things that could have happened, and at times it actually has been a blessing (sometimes in disguise, sometimes openly).
Perhaps when you have that chat with God, He can give you a sense of perspective...
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