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[TruthWorthy]

For a sort of recount of what's gone on recently: I've been on deferral from Uni studies in applied social science, while I spent time dealing with my diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome, and am now re-enrolled for the next lot study period which is to commence on the 27th of this month.
I have struggled with dealing with fundamentalist family members which was my primary motivation for joining here a few years ago. Since then I've attempted to reconcile with said member(s). That didn't work out very well. I'd also fallen into a trap of thinking I had a vision (some will remember) of my own baptism. Unfortunately, this was less of a miracle and more to do with my autistic abilities to remember things from my infancy.
I'm agnostic, although respectful of differing views, and I'm less opinionated than I have been. Hope to become reacquainted with some members here, meet some new ones, new friends, whatever.

Good to be back.

[Justtristo]

For a sort of recount of what's gone on recently: I've been on deferral from Uni studies in applied social science, while I spent time dealing with my diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome, and am now re-enrolled for the next lot study period which is to commence on the 27th of this month.
I have struggled with dealing with fundamentalist family members which was my primary motivation for joining here a few years ago. Since then I've attempted to reconcile with said member(s). That didn't work out very well. I'd also fallen into a trap of thinking I had a vision (some will remember) of my own baptism. Unfortunately, this was less of a miracle and more to do with my autistic abilities to remember things from my infancy.
I'm agnostic, although respectful of differing views, and I'm less opinionated than I have been. Hope to become reacquainted with some members here, meet some new ones, new friends, whatever.

Good to be back.

Welcome back to the forums.

There is an old saying, you can choose your friends, however you can't choose your family especially if they are fundamentalist Christians. I am fortunate the family I am in regular contact with (my Dad, Stepmother and brothers), I get along well with.

May I ask how old were you when you are baptized? The furthest I can remember back is to maybe when I when I was 3 or 4 and that was very hazy.

[TruthWorthy]

I vividly remember some events from before I was 1. I remember the night my Dad left when I was around 18 months old.

[Justtristo]

I vividly remember some events from before I was 1. I remember the night my Dad left when I was around 18 months old.

Wow, that is pretty early.

[KichigaiNeko]

Not unusual...my son has the same issues....all he can say is that "I remember" You need a very understanding family to deal with Aspergers' syndrome mainly because of it's wide range of classification on the Austisic Continuum

Welcome back...have you voted yet??

[fr0d0]

Welcome back TW hope things continue to improve

[Edwardo Piet]

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[Autumnlicious]

A question about your condition:

Could your vivid memories really be false ones, made up by a very active mind, to replace the 'hole'?

I can't tell if you a) have a very powerful system for storing memories (unlikely) or b) have a very good ability to simulate (likely). The latter is likely as part of human evolution and social groupings necessitating such, the former is something more specific and strange.

[TruthWorthy]

Not unusual...my son has the same issues....all he can say is that "I remember" You need a very understanding family to deal with Aspergers' syndrome mainly because of it's wide range of classification on the Austisic Continuum

Welcome back...have you voted yet??

Not yet - Only learned about this voting when checking in here tonight. I'll vote after I make this post - it's open in another tab. And I haven't had an understanding family what-so-ever. My parents don't even believe the condition exists and say there's nothing wrong withh me - and they're my atheistic immediate family

Welcome back TW hope things continue to improve

Thanks fr0d0, I'm really glad you're talking to me again

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Thank you, your last handle wasn't EvidenceVsFaith was it? good to see ya again.

A question about your condition:

Could your vivid memories really be false ones, made up by a very active mind, to replace the 'hole'?

I can't tell if you a) have a very powerful system for storing memories (unlikely) or b) have a very good ability to simulate (likely). The latter is likely as part of human evolution and social groupings necessitating such, the former is something more specific and strange.

G'day Synackeon, good to see you again. Cool gif. I realise the specificity requirements of the first instance are much more narrow than the requirements of synthesising/fabricating the experience and thus being very difficult to discern which it is, the latter becomes the more likely consideration/alternative. Subjectively, I can say that there are good reasons for my believing it is/was a memory from actual events, although little way to be 100% certain since my mum forgets just about everything, my uncle, who is a priest (and the one who baptised me) is living in another country, and my dad and I aren't in touch any more. I say it was a memory because it was accompanied with great details of the accumulative: vision, auditory, sensation, etc, which I don't experience in even lucid dream states. So the trigger for the memory would be something to do with my earlier discussions where I expressed some thoughts that a person needed to be within a concept to think through the ideas subjectively in order to compare each way of thinking. That I did but it was some rationalisation and ground work that I had to work from in order to play on the idea of a Christian God.
It just so happens that the reasoning I was using was also one that I happened to know. Catholic ideologies. It's also a no-brainer that I considered my uncle, the catholic priest during this time, and being my autistic self, self absorbed frames of mind in some way - it turns out that I was also thinking about myself a lot at the time (well it was introspection, come on). And all those elements were present at my baptism - including my uncles sermon which was odd enough in its own right to be remembered - and that I remember was truly spoken in Latin.
Beside this, it isn't unusual for me to remember things from very early in life. So it isn't a massive surprise there.

[Edwardo Piet]

[...]your last handle wasn't EvidenceVsFaith was it?

It was.