Autism in God's Economy by Ginger Taylor

(Posted by Patrick Sullivan Jr.)

Ginger Taylor of Adventures in Autism is doing a very interesting string of posts.

...in “Autism in God’s Economy” over the next six days I will discuss a few things that the Bible tells us about God’s perspective on those with Autism and on the rest of us. This series is predicated on the deity of Christ and the inerrancy of Scripture, which may be controversial ideas to some of my regular visitors.

In today's post, Ginger gets concrete and graphic about what it means to be a parent of an autistic child.

Once you become the parent of a disabled child, you begin to see what that ‘blessing’ really means in concrete terms, because one of the first things that happens to you, in your early grief, is that you become grounded. All of the trivial distractions, the petty rivalries, the BS ego trips, the vain ambitions and the frivolities of life suddenly become very unimportant. The crap in your life starts to fall away and it is replaced by seriousness about things of true value.

Comments

[TromboneMalone]

pat - thanks for all the support you give parents with autistic kids. we owe you big time.

i knew you would enjoy this, i got it from one of my listserves. i'm pretty sure this is that fool named dave gorski aka 'orac'! Vote away!!

http://www.hotornot.com/r/?eid=RSSZGZS&key=CKX

[Patrick Sullivan Jr.]

Yep, that's a picture of Dr. David Gorski, the beloved Orac.