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Religious thinking

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I was reading this article,

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/05/29/people-with-aspergers-less-likely-to-see-purpose-behind-the-events-in-their-lives/

It surprised me, I had always thought of Aspies as similar to monks,

happy to live in solitude pondering the big questions and thinking deeply.

A lot of the early monks like St Anthony and St Benedict seemed to live a very Aspie lifestyle, very little social contact and high concentration on repetitive simple tasks.

 

But maybe belief in god is a product of our brains instinct to project our mental states on the outside world, that seems to be reduced in autism ?

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  • I think this is like anything.

    You can talk about statistical rates of prevelance, but that neither make us all the same, nor makes stereotypical statements like "most people with Asperger's don't believe in God" false.

    We're all different. Some of us believe. Many, if not most, of us don't.

    I think Hope raises an interesting question, that is do people with Asperger's believe differently to those without?

    However, and I must say that I have no evidence to point in one direction or the other, but my gut feeling is that, religious belief is probably one of those things that both does and does not differ both within and without Asperger's. That is to say there is as much variation in the 'kind of belief', and the 'reasons for believing', amongst those that believe within the Autistic world as within the Neurotypical world.

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  • I think this is like anything.

    You can talk about statistical rates of prevelance, but that neither make us all the same, nor makes stereotypical statements like "most people with Asperger's don't believe in God" false.

    We're all different. Some of us believe. Many, if not most, of us don't.

    I think Hope raises an interesting question, that is do people with Asperger's believe differently to those without?

    However, and I must say that I have no evidence to point in one direction or the other, but my gut feeling is that, religious belief is probably one of those things that both does and does not differ both within and without Asperger's. That is to say there is as much variation in the 'kind of belief', and the 'reasons for believing', amongst those that believe within the Autistic world as within the Neurotypical world.

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