Do you think autistic people are more likely to be agnostic?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I am more agnostic Atheist becase of the many cases of autism.
PinkyandtheBrain
Level 7
Sep 7, 2018
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From what I have read , it appears to be the case that those of us on the autistic spectrum tend towards either atheism , what seems to me to be a sort of religious naturalism [en.m.wikipedia.org] , or like me take a more neutral nuanced view and are agnostic . [huffingtonpost.com] Here is the evidence from a research study [csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu] . P.S. Though I concede that one should not be quick to judge another's motives , I suspect that those on the spectrum whom do profess a religion are more drawn to the dogma than the deity .
Marmion
Level 6
July 23, 2018
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No, they latch on to strong convictions so either are VERY religious or VERY areligious.
ScientistV
Level 7
June 24, 2018
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I'm not sure, a lot of autistic people have a learning disability (not sure if it's disproportionate compared to NTs) so would not necessarily have the processing ability to come to a reasoned conclusion but that would be due to the learning disability not the autism.
It's also not unreasonable to assume that a lot of people have a belief due to their upbringing and autistic people would be the same.
Conclusion......I haven't the foggiest idea but it's an interesting topic 
ipdg77
Level 8
June 21, 2018
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yes, for they are quite literal in their thinking. they could never accept biblical stories as truth
springlover
Level 7
June 21, 2018
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If we lack a convincing counter narrative , we actually will be inclined to accept at face value whatever our parents , and other adults in our lives tell us . Since at that age we would have lacked maturity of mind , same as anyone else , we committed the authority fallacy , even without really understanding it . We simply took for granted that the grown ups knew best . Also , I was made to memorize this Bible passage [biblegateway.com] . So it wasn't until my teens that this other verse became an ironic reality [biblegateway.com] , and I became an agnostic , and some time later more so an atheist .
Yes. In my Aspergers support group, four of the six of us are atheists/agnostics.
Cosmos57
Level 4
June 20, 2018
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