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

[Carly Mihalakis]

Good morning, everybody,

And, at church???At 07:45 PM 9/19/2012, Sarah wrote:
>Yeah I would call the cops if that happened to me.  I'm autistic 
>they can't just discriminate against people because of their 
>disability.  I have Ocd, Autism, and very extreme anxiety disorder.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Sophie Trist <sweetpeareader at gmail.com
>To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:49:28 -0500
>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] having a hard time fitting in at church
>
>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
>To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
><nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>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.
>
>_______________________________________________
>nabs-l mailing list
>nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nabs-l_nfbnet.org
>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account
>info for nabs-l:
>
>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nabs-l_nfbnet.org/hotdancer1416
>%40gmail.com
>
>_______________________________________________
>nabs-l mailing list
>nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nabs-l_nfbnet.org
>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info
>for nabs-l:
>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nabs-l_nfbnet.org/sweetpeareade
>r%40gmail.com
>
>_______________________________________________
>nabs-l mailing list
>nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nabs-l_nfbnet.org
>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for nabs-l:
>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nabs-l_nfbnet.org/coastergirl92
>%40gmail.com
>
>_______________________________________________
>nabs-l mailing list
>nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nabs-l_nfbnet.org
>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for nabs-l:
>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nabs-l_nfbnet.org/carlymih%40comcast.net