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Randy S

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Okay Christians once again Can God heal me from any mental illness? Like

mental retardation? I'm not joking! Please help me if you're a true, loving,

and caring Christian. If you're not please don't bother to type bad comments or

sarcasm, bad advice, and stuff to make me feel offended. Don't crack jokes about

my handicap because if you do what goes around, comes around. I need some

encouragement and a scripture about the mental illness or mental retardation.

Please help me and those who don't, don't type!

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You seem quite articulate for a developmentally disabled person. Are you sure

you don't have high functioning autism? Sometimes HFA is misdiagnosed as mental

retardation. I believe that a lot of what is called mental illness, mental

retardation, autism, etc, is a social problem rather than a medical problem.

That is, there is nothing that needs " healing " , you're fine the way you are.

Instead, society needs to learn to accept different kinds of people, and

differently abled people need to learn to focus on their strengths, compensate

for their weaknesses, and accept themselves as they are.

I am not a Christian, but I was raised Christian. I've been thru many attempts

to " heal " me, even " exorcise " me. Turns out I have Asperger's Syndrome, a form

of high functioning autism, and my difficult behaviors and thoughts were a

response to society trying to make me hate myself as I am, and force me to be

like everyone else. Now I am a panthiest, I believe that God is everywhere and

in everything and far bigger than the god of any creed, and I know that God made

me just like I am for good reasons. So I no longer worry about being different

from everyone else, I just aim to be the best person I can be.

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