Last week I was thinking about including a character who with Asperger’s
Syndrome in a story I am writing. Alas, Influenza stopped that for
several days, during which time I thought about the matter some more. I
started writing a blog entry about Asperger’s Syndrome and low
intelligence, then I went out for lunch. After eating and having coffee
and discussing the matter of the Judeo-Christian god having problems
managing anger, it occurred to me that the god might actually have
Asperger’s Syndrome. The principal symptom is insistence on being right
regardless of actual fact. In the real world with humans there are many
other signs of the Syndrome, but we have only the Scriptures for
evidence regarding this.
That that god has problems regarding truth and enforces his
opinions violently argue strongly in favor of a diagnosis of Asperger’s,
but it could be OCD. In addition, we don’t know whether that god had
any learning disability.
This is something about which I will have to think more, but my preliminary decision is: Asperger’s Syndrome.
I am wondering whether anyone else as any thoughts on this matter. I
previously had thought that god had problems of low self-esteem as in
evidenced by the commandment that demands that other gods not be put
before him, but that might just be the tip of the iceberg.
