“We committed under God to a strategy of ‘triple zero’ goals—zero transmission, zero disability and zero discrimination and stigma by 2035. We don’t want to be here for our 200th—that’s the goal.”
In reflecting on my own diagnosis journey, as well as hearing the stories of others who’ve walked similar paths, I’ve noticed some interesting parallels between a positive story of neurodiversity and a Christian conversion testimony.
The more we are led by the flesh, the more God’s image in us is fractured. The more time a person spends in one world, the more like that world they become, whether it be an embodied world full of loving relationships, or a world full of self.
If you don’t deal with your emotions well they can hijack your life and lead you to do things that dishonour God and things you regret.
One day, the op shop shelves tell me, my children will be sifting through my things and there’ll be a skip bin and some charity drop-offs involved. It’s a great reminder how: “Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures for ever” (Is 40:8).
