7:46pm November 26, 2013

Oh WRT my earlier post…

avoid Autism and the God Connection unless you want to get really WTF on many levels.

Among them…

…autistic people who see spirits who are ~Native American and therefore close to Nature Itself and therefore close to God~.

It’s very Crystal Child-esque.  And induces a brain-wants-to-vomit response every time I even try to read it.  Similar to the Indigo Child and Crystal Child books.

The worst thing is that it’s an autistic person who wrote it.  An autistic person who strongly and sincerely believes that this is an accurate way to view the world, and ourselves.  And I think the foreword even says that he knows many autistic people really won’t like that he’s published this, but that he is going to because he feels so strongly that it’s important.  

It’s really upsetting to me.

It’s also one of those ones that confuses psychic and spiritual, and confuses daydreaming/fantasy worlds/repeating what your new age parents have said, with psychic, and … argh.

Especially upsetting because there are connections, for some autistic people, between our form of autism, and the way we approach spirituality and religion (whether we are religious or atheist or whatever).  But you can’t possibly explore that in public when stuff like this is what everyone is saying about you.  And it’s super-damaging to be the person who is being described this way, even when it’s another autistic person doing the describing.  :-(

He’s written other fairly decent books, but this one (and I think there may have even been sequels) really upset me in so many deep intense ways.

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