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When religious community pathologizes neurodiversity

My son has autism and people at church keep suggesting we need more faith for healing but I know this is how his brain works.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The medicalization of difference becomes a spiritual failure in communities that conflate healing with wholeness.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Religion and science — the examined relationship?”

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