Special Podcast Crossover Event
Unholy Mess: Where God and Neurodivergence Meet (Part Two) Featuring DL Mayfield (God Is My Special Interest)
This week, I sit down with my friend DL Mayfield for an in-depth conversation about where our neurodivergence begins and where faith in the evangelical church/fundamentalist god ends.
Also included in this episode is a brief discussion about Sam Smith's Grammy performance, Christians who felt “led” to walk out of the ceremony, The Black Church's obsession with wanting Beyoncé to die, and so much more.
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Thanks for sharing this. I appreciate the honesty from both of you. It makes so much sense to me that people with autism are either going to be all in or all out.
Just want to say that the challenge of Sunday morning, showing up at 10:30 a.m. and wearing the right clothes, is real!
It is interesting how suddenly things that were so difficult, that other people don't seem to have trouble with, make sense once you realize you might have autism, and experience so much relief from deciding not to do them anymore.
If you expressed that to a neurotypical person, my experience is that they would think you are exaggerating about the level of discomfort, or you must be rebellious, lazy and/or vain (a sinful heart issue). Not that you really don't know what to wear to church and you don't want to stand out as different or odd, but you don't know how to look “normal” because that isn't intuitive to you. And church can be loud and busy and make it hard to think and talk.
I made a note of the part where Richie said about friends still in the church: “They need something to be wrong with me.” So much to think about here, what it means to be a person who is thriving, when you are also a person who needs healing. It does come down to trusting yourself to know what is good for you, and realizing that actually works better than the alternatives.