tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-530548799681444324.post920598358876768100..comments2023-10-07T11:03:10.202-05:00Comments on Autist's Corner: Autism, Epilepsy and Religious ExperienceLindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10860246538349067232noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-530548799681444324.post-23093976927430527672009-12-06T03:49:58.926-06:002009-12-06T03:49:58.926-06:00Hi,
Epilepsy has gone from an obscure mental illn...Hi,<br /><br />Epilepsy has gone from an obscure mental illness, to a serious illness recognized by state foundations. This remarkable awareness, is because of the great work organizations, such as yourself, has done. We here, at Disease.com, fully support the cause your organization stands for and we are dedicated to aiding in your mission statement. Disease.com is a website which features disease and infection preventions/treatments. If you could, please list us as a resource or host our social book mark button, it would be much appreciated. Lets dedicate our time to the welfare of the 3 million individuals with epilepsy.<br />If you need more information please email me back with the subject line as your URL.<br /><br /><br />Thank You,<br />Sharon VegoeSharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07150965730531638770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-530548799681444324.post-32449713081773517382009-10-12T01:22:20.199-05:002009-10-12T01:22:20.199-05:00Hi, Sumnonrabidus!
I'm glad you've found ...Hi, Sumnonrabidus!<br /><br />I'm glad you've found out what was causing you to have those experiences, and will definitely give your blog a look. I would like to point out that I am not the author of the passages I quote describing temporal-lobe seizures: the man who wrote the first-person account is Daniel Tammet, a British man with Asperger's syndrome and the author of the book <i>Born on a Blue Day.</i><br /><br />I am autistic, but have never had a seizure. Sorry if there was confusion on that score.Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10860246538349067232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-530548799681444324.post-56759125015640207872009-10-11T21:20:34.656-05:002009-10-11T21:20:34.656-05:00I've been trying to document my temporal lobe ...I've been trying to document my temporal lobe seizures lately. I have not written quite so dramatically as you have, but the experience of sitting in class in second grade and knowing beyond any doubt that my mind and my body were separate, and then having deju-vu and out of body experiences that made me think I was crazy---until I was diagnosed after over 30 years of seizures. My attempts to describe all of this and bring it into some kind of perspective are on my blog (available as a link to my name here?).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-530548799681444324.post-87979587489270591222009-03-17T15:41:00.000-05:002009-03-17T15:41:00.000-05:00Could it mimic the effects of LSD? For some reason...Could it mimic the effects of LSD? For some reason my AS causes me to have an atheist experience...I cant stop obesessing over Charles Darwin :)Beastinblackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001553829217827228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-530548799681444324.post-16072806581298535592009-01-26T14:01:00.000-06:002009-01-26T14:01:00.000-06:00'I had no interest in religious education and was ...'I had no interest in religious education and was dismissive of the possibility of a god or that religion could be beneficial in people's lives. This was because God was not something that I could see or hear or feel, and because the religious arguments that I read or heard did not make any sense to me ... My autism can sometimes make it difficult for me to understand how other people might think or feel in any given situation. For this reason, my moral values are based more on ideas that are logical, make sense to me and that I have thought through carefully, than on the ability to "walk in another person's shoes." '<BR/><BR/>If his experience of autism is generally true of autistics, then his experience of religion would also be true. He makes it clear that autism allows him to achieve the distance needed to examine the society's values before making them their own, and therefore his experience of religion is also free from dogmatic theological argumentation.ectoplasmic reticulumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13339925325582478713noreply@blogger.com