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People think I might have autism (actually, "Asperger's Syndrome," which may be part of the autism "spectrum"). I tend to agree. There just wasn't a name for it until recently. If I'm understanding correctly, socialization and communication are hard in autism, because of other things (such as "small talk" being boring, or overpowering sights/sounds/smells in the environment).
Here would be an example of that from this woman being interviewed:
Think about it: that which is known and experienced as “real” in this world is typically discerned through the use of the 5 senses. We see a person, hear a bird, taste a piece of chocolate, feel a hug from a friend, smell a flower and thus come to believe in the existence of that which we’ve just “sensed”. One of the unfortunate disabling marks of autism is that there is a deep disconnect in the way that the 5 senses work and process in us. For the autistic, much of life is conducted via the short circuited route of a neurologically “frayed wire”. The “wire” through which sight, sound, smell, taste, and feeling (both emotional and physical) travel has a "short" in it and, therefore, those things reach us with a great deal of “static” attached. For us, a really good connection is hard to ever find.
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We've known each other for a while (I forget the number of years). I just never realized you could be describing symptoms of autism, ADD, or something similar: bullying, people point out how you look different from the social norm, spending time alone.
One thing I didn't know with autism or Asperger's is how the majority of people with that diagnosis are atheists, or can't imagine a God that exists. They will argue and insult you on YouTube, almost in a "religious" way (very protective of their views, no matter what other evidence is presented).
This woman was sort of saying the same thing:
Yet, amidst all of that there was a dark, daunting doubt ever and always breathing down my neck. It was, in many ways, a metaphysical manifestation of uncertainty and skepticism. This deep doubt appeared in a rather primordial realm. It was not so much, “Do I believe in God?” but it was more fundamentally “Is there even a God to believe in?” (To some extent I suppose I was asking “Is there even ANYTHING to believe in?”)
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If that which is tangible is such a struggle, how much more that which is intangible? If the seen is full of static, how much more the unseen?
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I can't say that similar things have happened in my life. For me, it's almost been the opposite. The first time someone told me about "death" of a plant or something inhuman, that was a myth. Everything lives forever. God may not have liked me (since autistic people have labels like "disabled" or "special needs"), but that's different from no God at all.
If anything, the stuff you see feels fake 90% of the time. You have to act a certain way in public, even if you've never met certain people before, and you won't be hanging out with them again. That feels SUPER FAKE. It's the way the world was designed, though.
In Heaven, there are descriptions of angels and other living things besides humans. How would the people who go to Heaven relate to any of those creatures? I can't even tell if you're supposed to interact with them, other than times when angels speak directly to humans in the Bible. Not everyone has lived in the 20th or 21st century. What do you say to those people? There are a bunch of ways in polite society to talk about things without connecting to other people, like politics, or "How about the Chiefs this year?" or "You'll shoot your eye out, kid." Why would Adam and Eve, Noah, Moses, ... know about any of that or think it was relevant? I haven't really asked a non-autistic (the nerdy term is "neurotypical") Christian person about those things. They might just say, "Well, it's a mystery."
Anyway, just thought of sharing for some reason. The funny thing about autism is, I think only autistic people study it closely. Probably not just autism, either, but anything that makes people different from the generic social rules of talking about sports and politics.
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