Hi Angela

I will keep you my prays about this.

David
----- Original Message -----
From: Angela Cembrola
To: aspiesdugout@...
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Aspies dugout] New to the group



Hi David,

Thanks for your details below. You are correct, I think, that the people
at my church did not understand autism. My priest is generally very
good, and serves God as best he can. I did tell him, and several other
people there, some time ago, that I suffer from AS. And I tried to
explain that there are certain situations which I find it difficult to
deal with, and often end up saying the wrong thing, and offending people
when I don't mean to. It was quite hard to stand up in front of a group
of people and tell them this. But I did it to try and get help from them
in dealing with such situations. However, they did not believe that my
difficulty was genuine. They seemed to think that I was making a fuss
about nothing, or that I was not trying, so that it was all my fault. I
asked the priest for help more than once, but got none. And so people
repeatedly upset me at the church, so that I got too frightened to go
back there.

I can understand that. I feel that there should be a AS Autism Minstery. God
has called me to form a Autistic Minstery for now on the Internet and I hope to
do a personal minstery. At my church there are no people with AS and I am
working with them to understand how to deal with AS people and I am making
progress. We AS people need God only he truly understands AS. I am training to
be a pastor and hoping to have God use my knowledge of AS to help others both
normal and AS.

Now the priest has changed his mind, and is going to take the action I
asked him to do weeks ago to help me...

I pray God will give him the ablity to understand

I expect that others with AS have had the problem that people simply
don't understand it. For me, the worst part was that I was telling the
truth, and being treated as a liar, even though the truth I was telling
was so difficult for me.
I am hoping you and me and others with AS can have people understand AS and
rely on God's help to exist as equal brothers and sisters of christ.
God bless you, David,
Angela


david wrote:
> Calvary Chapel of Orlando
> Attention:David Wittnebert
> 4025 Edgewater Drive,
> Orlando FL,32804
> United States of America
> Hi Angela
>
> I am very happy that things worked out between you and your priest. The
> priest should know as a true servant of God he must represent God and
> do what the Lord wants him to do. If he tried to prevent you from
> attending church then he has displeased God and misrepresented God.
> But God forgaves everyone and loves everyone we all make mistakes and
> I will pray God will minster in his heart to do his will and minster.
> God created us all and loves all of us and we are very valued by him.
> Maybe this priest didn't understand or know how to deal with autism.
> Alot of churches don't understand how. But God can overcome anything
> because nothing is impossiable for God. Angela God values you and he
> will help you. I hope that the church you are attending will represent
> God's true character that's the important thing. Angela thank you for
> writing I hope one day we can meet in person but onething I do know is
> we will meet in heaven when we go home to God. If you wish to write to
> me you can e-mail me at djw@... with out the chat room or for
> those who are interested in christianity or my church address on top
> I would give you my home address but I don't wish my home address to
> be posted on the chat rooms.
> I wish you well.
>
> In Christ
> David Wittnebert







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