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[animar506]

Hi Friends,
Just a note that there will be no specific names used in the text of the messages. Feel free to discuss ideas, how to accomplish them and just be friends.

The purpose of this list is to learn about restoring friendships and learning about disorders that tend to prevent such relational occurrances.

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Re: Asperger's... I begin to wonder. (cont.)

[seekingtheway]

I believe in helping others ... to help themselves. Because "God helps those who help themselves" so doesn't it stand to reason if you can help somebody to help themselves you are helping them get closer to God? Now, it doesn't HAVE to be Christ/Jewish God just because I grew up Methodist and am now gnostic Christian. But, it is a nice thing to do, it's empathy and caring and whatever the person believes it can still help them see their strengths and weaknesses and hopefully how to cope better. TO help somebody be the best they can be is my goal! But, not so it's MY version of htem, but God's version of them. Some people choose to see this as me being high and mighty and egotistical and stuff, but it seems to be said only when they find they cannot agree to disagree anymore. -sigh-
empathy is NOT easy, but I stop for the world!here is a helpful quote I read from a shaman teaching another person to be a shaman:
"You will be required to confront many powerful adversaries, because the dark always follows the light. You can only overcome these opponants if you refuse to BECOME them. If you win by acting as they do, then you have lost everything" ("Dreamways of the Iroquois: Honoring the secret wishes of the soul" by Robert Moss, p 144).