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I resonated with your post! I'm a doctoral student and I am thinking and writing a lot about people with disabilities what it means to be embodied human beings. I was recently diagnosed with ADHD, and have 2 children with ADHD. I am trying to figure out how to live my life with the body and brain that God has given me. I like many others with ADHD struggle to belong in many spaces, including the church, and desire not to be accommodated, but accepted as I am, executive functioning differences and all. Your post reminded me of the beautiful gifts of interdependence and mutual reliance. As someone with ADHD, I am perpetually made to feel like I have to conform to every environment in which I find myself, which just becomes exhausting and isolating. I long for communities of faith in which every kind human being is welcomed and loved as he and she is, without caveat. I long for communities in which compassion, empathy, and love are the values we treasure the most. Thank you for encouraging my heart today!
Thank you so much for sharing all that here--you have a beautiful vision of who we could be as the body of Christ. I believe we can contribute to becoming communities of belonging where everyone matters, and you are a part of that work!
I resonated with your post! I'm a doctoral student and I am thinking and writing a lot about people with disabilities what it means to be embodied human beings. I was recently diagnosed with ADHD, and have 2 children with ADHD. I am trying to figure out how to live my life with the body and brain that God has given me. I like many others with ADHD struggle to belong in many spaces, including the church, and desire not to be accommodated, but accepted as I am, executive functioning differences and all. Your post reminded me of the beautiful gifts of interdependence and mutual reliance. As someone with ADHD, I am perpetually made to feel like I have to conform to every environment in which I find myself, which just becomes exhausting and isolating. I long for communities of faith in which every kind human being is welcomed and loved as he and she is, without caveat. I long for communities in which compassion, empathy, and love are the values we treasure the most. Thank you for encouraging my heart today!
Thank you so much for sharing all that here--you have a beautiful vision of who we could be as the body of Christ. I believe we can contribute to becoming communities of belonging where everyone matters, and you are a part of that work!