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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 1d

I think autism horse therapy is a very funny concept, someone looking at a bunch of autistics and was like "yeah, bet these guys will love horses" and TBF they weren't wrong

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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 1d

The reason that you didn't see autism "back in your day" is because the way you used to deal with girl autism was to send them to a convent where they all pretended to be cats

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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 2d

you get double autism

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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 2d

guy who believes in the extreme male brain theory of autism and thinks that is sufficient justification for women's ordination, but only if she has autism

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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 2d

woman who takes the extreme of the male brain theory of autism so seriously that she believes that 1 Timothy 2:12 does not apply to her

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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 2d

most of autistic politics can be understood downstream of the question: Do you like being autistic?

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Marissa Franks Burt @mburtwrites.bsky.social · 3d

So appreciated this conversation. Thank you for having me!

Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 3d

Here at CoTS we love data driven analysis of Christianity subcultures. In the last podcast episode, I talked with @mburtwrites.bsky.social about her new book "The Myth of Good Christian Parenting" and how Christian parenting books relate to autism (spoiler: it is bad). Link below:

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Alyssa Barringer @alyssakaye.bsky.social · 3d

This conversation was so good!

Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 3d

Here at CoTS we love data driven analysis of Christianity subcultures. In the last podcast episode, I talked with @mburtwrites.bsky.social about her new book "The Myth of Good Christian Parenting" and how Christian parenting books relate to autism (spoiler: it is bad). Link below:

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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 3d

www.podbean.com/ew/pb-s56e8-...

The Myth of Good Christian Parenting (With Marissa Burt)

This podcast is about the intersection of autism (ASD 1) and Christianity, covering ten years of ethnographic research covering over 26000 autistic Christians and ex-Christians. In this episode, I tal...

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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 3d

Here at CoTS we love data driven analysis of Christianity subcultures. In the last podcast episode, I talked with @mburtwrites.bsky.social about her new book "The Myth of Good Christian Parenting" and how Christian parenting books relate to autism (spoiler: it is bad). Link below:

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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 4d

I love interviewing autistic Christians because you will ask them about Paul and they will say things like "if you think about it, he was a sort of Andrea Dworkin of his time" with complete sincerity.

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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 5d

this is a play on words joke because she is from woking

Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 5d

I've floated the idea of operation paperclipping the trans women at NSA

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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 5d

we now have a female archbishop of canterbury, because of woke

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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 5d

Having been on of my nations strongest keyboard warriors and a powerlifter I need to contest this. You can get really autistic about powerlifting as well.

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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 7d

condolences to all the autistic women out there who used Jane Goodall as their inspiration to learn social skills by observing their classmates like they were chimpanzees

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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 10d

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Dependence, Dignity, and Disability (With Leah Libresco Sargeant)

This podcast is about the intersection of autism (ASD 1) and Christianity, covering ten years of ethnographic research covering over 26000 autistic Christians and ex-Christians. In this episode, I tal...

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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 10d

New podcast out now!
People have asked me "How do I understand the average autistic Christian woman?" and normally I didn't have a go to reference until Leah Libresco Sargeant wrote her newest book "The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto", I interviewed her for pod! link below:

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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 13d

When looking for correlative causes of autism, it is often worth asking "Is this something that autistic mothers are more likely to do?" Does Tylenol cause autism, or are autistic women more likely to take Tylenol during their pregnancy.

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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 14d

sure lots of things do, but also lots of things don't, in the case, I'm saying I think this is one of those things that probably needs more explicit categorization

Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 14d

fair enough, I think we just disagree

Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 14d

I would like to make it clear, I am not pro-eugenics and do not endorse any form of it.

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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 14d

I am arguing that people are finding the current system quite confusing and they find it less confusing when we add clearer labels. Even if those labels are porous and do not precisely capture everything, they help people more easily and quickly triangulate so we can speak a common language.

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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 14d

so there is at least "something" there, because when I differentiate between ASD 1, 2, and 3 and say "this is what used to be called Asperger's, HFA, and PDD-NOS and this is all I focus on" they go from hostile or unreceptive to receptive.

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Christianity On the Spectrum @christianityon.bsky.social · 14d

Most clinicians and researchers who work with ASD 3 also emphasize that they work with "profound autism" and often express frustration with people like me who only focus on ASD 1 and just use the term autism and accuse me of being an obscurantist.

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