Autism doesn't make it impossible to believe in God. I've spent a few years in therapy for autism and at this point I just come across as introverted and not autistic. I'm 36 years old now, and done a fair bit of spiritual searching.
There are some things about being religious or going to church that are not necessarily the most spiritual. Like the social hour after church- its rather neutral to "be social" even though many extroverts want to think being spiritual and social are much the same. But these things can also be spiritually negative, too many people turn to other people and don't listen to their own inner conscience and intuition, and its here somebody who is introverted might have an advantage. The Bible is full of prophets that had their own inner vision and hearing of God and no longer cared so much about being accepted. Indeed, some of them were accused of being crazy. So being religious is not at all about "getting along with people" necessarily, and neither is being autistic or having social difficulties automaticly something that makes God irrelevent.
I do not pretend to understand God. If I could, God would not be God. But I do believe that Jesus is how God wants us to think of Him as much as we can think of God at all. And I believe God understands me perfectly, and understands you perfectly as well, even if our own understanding is not perfect.
11 Jan 2013, 11:55 am
