Status Updates From Peculiar Discipleship: An A...

“ the Spirit’s gift of tongues speech indicates the preservation of difference rather than the homogenization of all people. An autistic reading of Pentecost would not seek, necessarily, for translation of autistic speech so that it can be understood. Instead, the spiritual practice of tongues speech indicates an open and welcoming community that preserves differences.” - Claire Williams

“I wish therefore for any future hope to allow for autistic identity to prevail but in a way that ends suffering. It is a hope, but it is not exactly a clear hope and perhaps that is, after all, entirely what hope is.”
- Claire Williams, p. 104

Occupational therapy was mentioned in this chapter🤩🫶🏼

“Neurodiversity is the manner in which autism is described and understood…Singer believed that neurodiversity was similar to biodiversity: it reflected natural variance and the benefit to systems that difference allows.” -p. 6

“Autistic strengths are not considered diagnostic.” -p. 17