If Trump were on the spectrum behaving the exact same way he is now he wouldn't have lasted a week.
Trump on the Spectrum
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moated
Most people are moated, particularly those society deems worth engaging. This means there are barriers to getting into their life and often these barriers are insurmountable. I have been in situations including a college surrounded by people society deemed worth...
Authenticity, an Existential Threat to Christianity
I think another reason a lot of people on the spectrum (including myself) are not Christian is we often don't have the social skills to know what should be said only in private verses what can be said in public. Even if we do know this we had to learn it...
Christianity takes…
Intuition: What is this intuition you speak of? My intuition is as good as the foam package it came in. Over and over trusting people, including good friends and just getting my head handed to me. And of course in social situations being awkward as heck. I don't...
Forgiveness is an NT construct
Forgiveness is like the horizon. Everyone says it exists but you can never get there. Forgiveness is like lotto winnings. I remember being at a gas station and there was a LED ticker denoting winnings in towns around us. And we hear about the big wins in the...
life
In a calculus proof the outcome is subject to the laws of mathematics. Christianity is not like that. Whether Christianity is true is itself incarnational. The only way you show it to be true or false is the way you live your life. This is why youth directors and...
Shame Away
Who would have thought, you couldn't shame away a disability!
Lights
I think the best thing you can do at a restaurant as an aspie is take their feedback surveys and complain about the things that bother you. For example the radio bothered me because it was too loud. Most NT's don't like the radio loud either but it isn't a deal...
numbness and detachment
The events of the last six months have kind of gotten me jammed to silence. Kind of like those old 80's synthesizer keyboards, if you maxed out their polyphony—playing more notes than they could output at a time—you just got silence. I just feel numb and I really...
Autism and the Burden of Reciprocity
Scientists did a study and found that people on the spectrum were rated more poorly by children and adults: In other words, Autistic people can’t take all the blame for underdeveloped social skills because non-autistic people actually are actively avoiding us,...