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« on: October 31, 2013, 10:16:42 PM »
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  • Do people with Aspergers syndrome allowed to become religious brothers?


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    « Reply #1 on: October 31, 2013, 11:37:45 PM »
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  • I imagine that that would depend on how severe it is and if it would interfere with the community's life.


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    « Reply #2 on: November 01, 2013, 02:18:30 PM »
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    Do people with Aspergers syndrome allowed to become religious brothers?


    Who are you? I was told that I had that once but my tyrants settled on a less illustrious diagnosis. I also want to be a religious brother, but would not join a liberal infested order.

    People with aspergers are supposed to be not adept at social interaction, but far above average in some intellectual field or art that they usually have. It is wrong for the church to turn people away because of what the secular world labelled them as. Monasteries are supposed to be places where any man willing could go to make himself perfect, now they are so selective that it contradicts the Christian ideal they purport to hold.

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    « Reply #3 on: November 01, 2013, 04:41:30 PM »
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  • I know a Benedictine monk (who is also a priest) and a Franciscan brother who have Asperger's.  The do fine.  
    Stir up within Thy Church, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the Spirit with which blessed Josaphat, Thy Martyr and Bishop, was filled, when he laid down his life for his sheep: so that, through his intercession, we too may be moved and strengthen by the same Spir

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    « Reply #4 on: November 01, 2013, 06:23:18 PM »
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  • Is Asperger's Syndrome even a real thing?  


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    « Reply #5 on: November 01, 2013, 08:02:02 PM »
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  • Certainly it is a real thing.  Some therapists believe it is radically over-diagnosed, however.  
    Stir up within Thy Church, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the Spirit with which blessed Josaphat, Thy Martyr and Bishop, was filled, when he laid down his life for his sheep: so that, through his intercession, we too may be moved and strengthen by the same Spir

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    « Reply #6 on: November 06, 2013, 12:23:56 PM »
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    Is Asperger's Syndrome even a real thing?  


    No. Its just a natural human reaction do different psycho-conditioning.
    So are all mental disorders.

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    « Reply #7 on: November 06, 2013, 01:52:50 PM »
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  • Please define "Asperger's Syndrome"?  New one on me.


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    « Reply #8 on: November 06, 2013, 02:55:55 PM »
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  • Based on what I've read on the internet, it seems that it is assigned to people when the teacher checks the box that says, "Does not play well with others".

    This is what WebMD says:

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    Asperger's syndrome, also called Asperger's disorder, is a type of pervasive developmental disorder (PDD). PDDs are a group of conditions that involve delays in the development of many basic skills, most notably the ability to socialize with others, to communicate, and to use imagination.


    If this is a mental "disorder", then I would imagine that all of the Desert Fathers--many of them saints--has Asperger's syndrome.  I've heard "late talkers" are often "diagnosed" as having Asperger's.  

    It does not seem to me to be something real, but the psychiatric industry can make a fortune treating it.  

    Some of the noted methods of treatment for Asperger's is "Special Education" and, of course, lots of different kinds of "therapies"; huge industries in themselves.  Interestingly, the drug industry has not yet developed any pharmaceuticals to "treat" someone who is, essential, an introvert.