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

Ashley Bramlett bookwormahb at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 21 03:58:08 UTC 2012


Lavanya,
that sounds harsh. Could you find another church?

-----Original Message----- 
From: Lavonya Gardner
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 8:16 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] having a hard time fitting in at church

I was told that I  wasn't fowling gods word because I couldn't talk. And my 
sensory input is way, causing me to scream if things r too bright, loud, or 
if touched. Or handle any change. They thought I was dumb. They also thought 
that I was cursing them out, when I would make sounds or sign, and that my 
blindness was my punishment for not letting them touch me.

Sent from my iPad

On Sep 19, 2012, at 16:49, 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
> 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.
>
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