Informal scientific survey of Y!A R&S: If you have aspergers (diagnosed or not), what religion are you?

Question

It's a fairly simple question.

If you are an aspie, diagnosed or not-diagnosed but meeting the diagnostic criteria, what religion/faith do you hold?

Unity:

I truly mean no offense but there's no other way to say this: Duh.

It's a survey only. I have no operating hypothesis. However, since aspergers is a condition that affects mental activity, it could have an effect on faith, which is also a mental activity.

I am interested on if there is, in this limited 'sample', sufficient information on which to base an operational hypothesis for future research.

Laptop: I expected as much. Hence why this is entirely informal.

My next step will be to survey aspergers specific sites, so that I limit on the condition, not an interest in religion.

But this is as good a place as any to do impromptu study.

ZER0:

No, I'm just asking, if someone here personally has AS, what religion or faith to which they hold.

My ideal answer would be, "I have AS and I am a ."

However, I think from the answers I'm receiving... there's already sufficient information to form a tentative hypothesis. I'll have to pursue this on some of the aspie boards.

Answer 1

Aspergers is not a matter of religion or faith - that is a medical diagnosis. A person with Aspergers can be of any faith, religion or none at all.

Answer 2

Sorry JP, you're not getting a lot of direct input from Aspergers people here. I'm not much help. Close friends have an Aspergers daughter who is 20. They're Atheist and she's never had any religion, if that helps.

Answer 3

This has little to do with the question since the "person" in question is just a fictional character in a book, but the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is about someone with aspergers syndrome, and he's an atheist.

Great book, btw.

Answer 4

I don't know. It would depend on the mental age. If a person with Asperger's was sufficiently high functioning to understand the nature and significance of religious beliefs, they could accept any one they like, but if the mental age is that of a child, then not.

Answer 5

I do not have Asperger's, however I have a friend that does and he is more of a spiritual person than religious. He leans closer to the New Age/Native American thing.

Answer 6

Asperger's is thought to be similar to high functioning autism.... so I'm sorry, J.P., but I have no idea where you're going with this. My husband worked with several AS kids when he worked with special needs kids, and they came from different backgrounds.

Are you asking what AS people TEND to be? I really couldn't tell you.

Answer 7

My next door neighbor's kid has aspergers. They are lapsed Catholic.

Answer 8

asperger's people tend to be highly intelligent, so i suspect most are atheists.

Answer 9

I'm not AS but I think I know what you're getting at with this survey


let me know how you get on please