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Being autistic and Christian

Billy87

I just wanted to start a thread to see what the experiences of any other autistic Christians are? As an autistic person who didn't know I was autistic until later life I have had an up and down relationship with my faith over the years. I have had some very bad experiences in church too, I know a lot of autistic people struggle with church for many reasons too.

Im not trying to convert or preach to anyone and I appreciate a lot of people on here aren't religious or anything but it would be really interesting and comforting to hear any experiences of fellow autistic Christians 

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  • Hi everyone, I have been a Christian since a child, I went to a faith Catholic school and was baptised as a Catholic. I left school at 16 and then started praying for a miracle and defined my own faith. I thought that God was the only one who could do this for me-having known of Jesus’ miracles and what the Father has done as the creator of the world.  He gave me something better than what I was asking for with his blessing of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. This has been the comforter that Jesus promised us to me. It will be my friend to the end of time. I am glad I have got that as it allows me  to focus on spirituality to. The faith has been so good to me. God supports me with my autism and has many times in my life. God knows how to manage my autism. He cares.

    I find it hard when I get overwhelmed but being diagnosed has helped me to come to terms with that as I know it is just not me.

    I go to an Anglican church as a non demontional Christian and the service is only 30 mins long and it is quiet in a chapel. The rectors are really nice and welcoming.

    I have a get a good understanding of the Bible with having some help to understand the Book of Revelations the end chapter- what is litreal v symbolic/allegorical have got a good understanding of it all now. I have a degree in the subject to. It is an area of interest to.

    It is some other peoples understanding of this condition that is the problem that I think that things are changing. I will never let other people’s views take my faith from me. I think getting a personal relationship with your faith and knowing that you belong and are supported is important.

    I wrote my experiences and uploaded them to a free Google Ebook which can be read which charts my journey and my experiences of how the Gifts of the Holy Spirit has supported me with autism and being an autistic Christian and my experiences. I have a blog to which has a few posts on neurodiversity, but I will share the ebook with you with my story. There is no personal information in the Ebook and it was really rewarding for me to do.

    docs.google.com/.../edit

  • in reply to RachelO

    Hi everyone, I thought I would add a new page for my story of my journey of my Christian faith and my experiences of being an autistic Christian who is diagnosed with autism and share it with you on a blog which is wordpress as an alternative to the google document format above. It is a single page woth no identifying names on it. It is was the best thing in my life I have done to write it. I hope that it helps someone who needs some support and who is looking for it.

    capegirlchrist.wordpress.com/

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  • in reply to RachelO

    Hi everyone, I thought I would add a new page for my story of my journey of my Christian faith and my experiences of being an autistic Christian who is diagnosed with autism and share it with you on a blog which is wordpress as an alternative to the google document format above. It is a single page woth no identifying names on it. It is was the best thing in my life I have done to write it. I hope that it helps someone who needs some support and who is looking for it.

    capegirlchrist.wordpress.com/

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