[nabs-l] having a hard time fitting in at church

[Andrew Edgcumbe]

I also hate it when a pastor pushes you aside if you are not healed
and things like that.  I feel that god  has willed us to have our
blindness until us who are christians go to heaven.



On 9/19/12, Sophie Trist <sweetpeareader at gmail.com> wrote:
> How can they throw you out of a church just because you're
> autistic? Sounds like discrimination to me!
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lavonya Gardner <hotdancer1416 at gmail.com
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> Date sent: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:16:55 -0400
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] having a hard time fitting in at church
>
> I have been thrown out of 25 churches, due to my autism. They
> seem to be fine with me being blind, but autism was not. So now I
> attend 2 churches. 1 of them has sometimes 15 blind people at a
> time. At the other church, I am the only blind person? I am on
> the dance team. I still do not fit in, but I do try to do ad much
> ad I can, and try and be ne'er people with my interests. Have you
> tried finding people to talk to that have your interests?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Sep 19, 2012, at 10:49, Andrew Edgcumbe <andrewjedg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Hi nabs students readers
>
>  I hope you all are doing well.
>
>
>  Anyway
>  I am struggling with fitting in at my church and things.
>
>  I  been having a hard time finding friends to talk to there and
> things.
>
>  They all seem to talk to each other and just walk away from me
> and things.
>  every time after the service is over they just talk to each
> other's
>  friends and i am not really talked to much at all i am often
> left
>  sitting alone sometimes they walk out of the church pew all
> together
>  and things i get left behind allot i don't get included in going
> out
>  to lunch and things like that.
>
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