I had a similar experience. The more I learned about autism the more excited I became about finally having an answer to all the things that didn’t make sense the last 30+ years. After obsessing over articles and videos about how other people on the spectrum dealt with things like burnout and rage, I started to feel peace about who I was for the first time in my life. I went back and forth questioning whether or not I should get a formal diagnosis and ultimately made the decision not to for this one simple reason: It didn’t matter. If the “solutions” that worked for autistic people worked for me, then everything else was just semantics.
If believing I was on the spectrum improved my quality of life, it didn’t matter whether it was true or not.
Yeah but not what the church teaches. The church teaches that homosexuality and promiscuity led to the downfall of Sodom but the bible explicitly states: Ezekiel 16:49 “‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy."
But that doesn’t really fit with the American church’s worldview so they leave that part out.