A useless diagnosis

My name is David Richard. I live in Quebec/Canada. I decided to create this blog to let people know the view of an autistic person of the Bible and other religious groups in the world. For now, I just created this blog and I am in the process of writing my first big post. Why did I entitle this "A useless diagnosis"? Because, I had to be diagnosed for people arround me to accept me better but it never removed who I always was. Diagnosed or not, every human should be treated with the same respect may it me child or adult. As I read once on Facebook, a blind man can open your eyes and a poor person can make you rich.

Being autistic is not easy. Most of all, an autistic person like me who looks normal on the outside but tremendeously struggling inside. Noone lives and knows about what another human lives inside as emotions, or in my case, lack of. I am maried to a wonderfull woman from the Philippines. She has been what kept me up and alive inside me. BUT, she is also the one struggling the most with what I am. Autism is a handicap, not a disease or sickness and it mostly affects the people arround us. Parents, brother, sister, wife, girlfriend, husband, boyfriend, children and friends. The people arround us are usually the people that suffer. And for an autistic person like me, we suffer ONE thing, 1 single thing: "Being left out and not belonging to this world". Everything we believe and see, most people will not seize half of what we really see and because we have extreme struggles to express ourselves properly, we feel rejected from this world because it was built arround what people would blindly say "normality" or as we say it in the scientific way "neuro-typical".

I will attempt to describe to the best of how I am capable to express myself, what I lived being raised in the christian world and how I managed to build my own confidence in my beliefs no matter how hard it is for those arround me. Unfortunately, many people suffer from christian judgements and may I also add, many religions fight and go at war because of judgements. And as beautiful a christian may present things or as milky it can be shown, the truth is: Christian is still a religion.

I am NOT pronouncing myself as the messenger of the truth and not at all saying that what I will write and talk about should be believed by everyone. I am just going to share the results of what I read, understood and let you forge your own opinions as you are most certainly free to do so.

But for now, to end this, I shall simply summerize what this is all about, it's about loving each other as human beings. No matter our beliefs, our sexual orientations or our life styles, our culture or skin color or even age, may it be adult or child, no matter who we are, we are all equal and share 2 things all together: Life and death. And we all have 1 thing in common, we all strive and struggle to feel and share one thing no matter how it is represented or how we express it, it all sums up to this 1 thing:

"We all want to feel loved and we all have love to give."
David Richard (Qc/Can)