My (Autistic) Grand Unified Theory of How We Got Here
When an Autistic person is not given resources or access to self-knowledge, and when they’re told their stigmatized traits are just signs that they’re a disruptive, overly sensitive, or annoying kid, they have no choice but to develop a neurotypical façade. Maintaining that neurotypical mask feels deeply inauthentic and it’s extremely exhausting to
... See moreWhat unites us, generally speaking, is a bottom-up processing style that impacts every aspect of our lives and how we move through the world, and the myriad practical and social challenges that come with being different.
Devon Price • Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
It was boboism that radically changed our conception of faith formation, allowing youthfulness to mutate the transcendent call of Jesus to follow into a therapeutic pursuit of the self without divine action.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
Bonhoeffer is telling us what we all know in our hearts, if we’ll admit it to ourselves: these old myths were the stories we were told in our childhood. Now that we have come of age, we should put them aside and take responsibility for ourselves like adults,