Same, I'm Christian and autistic and hearing this story is the worst that could happen 😢😢 Jesus would have be really angry for doing that to children... It's not the gospel at all!!! 😢 This person should repent! The Kingdom of God belongs to the children and the ones that are like them !🤍
"i blew out the candle 😂 jesus was gone 😐" made me die laughing LMAO i no longer practice religion but im glad you feel comfortable and safe in your spirituality enough to look back at this and laugh ❤
I remember this story from your book! 12/10 highly recommend ❤ I’m Catholic and even though this didn’t happen to me at my school, I would probably have a similar experience if I wasn’t already masking my autistic traits so hard. I’m glad you are able to laugh about it now through an awesome song! 👏☺️
Autistic Northern Irish Catholic here (still believing and practising). When I was 2 years old, I danced on a priest's grave after Mass. Naturally enough my parents were telling me to stop, but apparently these two oul women came up and said to us, "It's about time someone danced on that f**ker's grave!" (God forgive and spare me 😂😂😂) Epilogue: When I was about 15, I went to the grave to apologise and pay my respects. Right after that, as I was getting back into the car, I bumped my head. The fecker got his own back 😂
As a Christian.....this is hilarious to me. Lol. Sad for sure, I can't believe the staff made a child feel that way but you have a funny story now. Lol. And so glad you can look back on it and laugh and that it didn't completely dampen your faith forever.
Great way to pivot! You should make a sing a long audio track to your book like they used to do with Disney movies/books. And it would be awesome and you could even include a PDF binder with an Cartoon Princess version of Yourself on the cover. I am serious, the world needs more of your music. 🎸🧐🤘
Chloe, it is ok, God loves you as you are and no amount of snuffing out that candle will make him love you less. ❤ You are right no stupid Catholic nun had the right to do that to you, so wrong. They are people in school and educators and they should know how to treat young people. Anyway I think God would be proud of you actually because you support other people with autism and difficulties and differences who struggle with the same sorts of things, you go girl. You are making a difference in the world and I think that is something God would be proud of rather than some people in the world who are insane👀😱🥺😭
I had a large vocabulary at age 5. I referred to the long flowing back part of a dress as a "train", which it was. The stupid teacher said I was silly. And I didn't contribute anything more for the rest of the year. To quote Google: "In clothing, a train describes the long back portion of a robe, coat, cloak, skirt, overskirt, or dress that trails behind the wearer."
Hey Chloe! I'm so sorry you had to experience that at such a young age, but I'm also happy you can look back on it as a learning experience for discovering what really matters to you, or at least starting to and loving and accepting yourself. I attended Catholic school as well and attended church, all the way up until I was 18 but I must say, it felt too constricting and I can see how damaging it can be. As a 21-year-old now, I consider myself more spiritual than anything else these days. Happy for you! Love you! 🥰
I feel you, I have ADHD and Dyscalculia and a catholic priest once choke slammed me into a blackboard and stated punching me because he couldn't believe I that couldn't' complete a geometry assignment. I have a hard time looking at or understanding numbers because to my eyes they just seem to move around the board as I looked at them and my brain wouldn't hold onto their value. The history of how religions have treated people with disabilities is absolutely horrifying!!
I cried when I read this part in your book. The way people, especially teachers, have treated you through life feels all too familiar and definitely hurt my heart
Yeah these days you're known for the realistic autism representation in media. I loved Quinni so much, I saw so much of myself in her. You did an amazing job.
hi! ik you didn't ask me this and you asked her, but i wanted to share my answer to this question if that's alright, if not you don't have to read it 💗 so i feel like a lot of the times with religious trauma, people leave the church because of their experiences and because of the people and that's totally understandable when your put in a position where you don't feel comfortable, are being abused, hurt, made fun of, discriminated against (the list goes on unfortunately) but i think what a lot of Christian reverts have found is that the hate they were shown wasn't from the God that they worship (in this case, Jesus) but it was actually from the church or the people in the church spreading that hatred and cruelty. see, christianity like a lot (not all) of organized religions preach love and acceptance, but unfortunately, the loudest is usually the most heard and not the ones who are actually correctly or respectively spreading/ sharing their beliefs or religion, so Chloe probably just realized that and came to her beliefs on her own despite what she was shown and how she was hurt in the past, it's a classic don't judge a book by it's cover scenario except the cover of the book in this situation is a pastor or member of the religion who isn't representing the actual belief correctly 💗
HE made you Perfect❣️😂🎉 They did not know this ? Shame on them not knowing that Salvation is through JESUS not a candle representing HIM.😮😂😊 They will go to hell if they don't repente of this. Blaming a little 5 year old because they did knew true scripture.
When I read that story in your book I never knew it would become a wrap song some day. Bless your heart present day and 5 year old Chloe just made my day. Ahchu 💨🕯goodbye Jesus lol.
Fellow autistic Christian here, I just discovered your channel a few days ago in the middle of a super bad meltdown and binging your videos has really helped me so much to truly embrace my identity as an autistic person since being diagnosed a couple years ago!
i’m a christian and there is NO REASON to treat a child like this… or have a christian school at all, actually. too many predators use religion to get close to the vulnerable (children usually) and when you add ‘worldly’ things like school to the teaching of scripture (which is against the bible btw) most often it ends up taking priority over what really matters, since you can’t teach children the spirit of the christian law. they’ll only respond to the letter of the law and when that happens, your motives are corrupted, since you’re serving rules and not God
Oh my heart sunk and grieved, until the end. Yeshua was definitely still there and so glad you are a Christian now. We need you in the Christian realm as there is still much growth to be done in Christians with acceptance and accommodations for neurodiverse people. Hugs and Prayers from Texas, USA.
I went to a Christian school during kindergarten and first grade, and I shit you not--I got in trouble for praying with my eyes open at the end of day prayer. My mother confronted the teacher and said "#1, why would God give a shit how anyone prays? And #2, how would you know that her eyes were open unless yours were too?"...Busted. She took me out of that school that year and I transferred to a public school because that same teacher also lost her temper with me and kept me in class during recess (since I wasn't grasping basic math as well as the other 1st graders). Looking back now at 33 years old, I know that God doesn't care if I pray with my eyes open, closed, or while I'm taking a dump. What matters is that I believe in a higher power and that teacher was a tyrant. ❤
Chloe, Excellent song😃😃👍👍👍👍👍 and I am so glad that you are able to laugh about it now too🤗🤗🦋🦋💛💛💛💛💛!!! I🙏🙏 pray your crazy Kindergarten Teacher got the spiritual help to repent of terrifying little children 🙏🙏!!! And that Priest should be ex-communicated for also going along with it. If anyone needed an "exorcism" it should have been your Kindergarten Teacher and that Priest!!! First off, I believe that God is fair and compassionate. God understands you were nervous and like you said, "non-verbal". And what you did was sneeze, which is NOT A SIN🤗🤗!!!!!!!!!!! Our Church, The Church of the New Jerusalem, believes that you are not held responsible for your sins until you are 20 years old🤗🤗, when your conscience has formed and you are at the age of reason🤗🤗. Like a when a tree is a sapling, you can not expect it to be strong and well formed like it is when it is 20 years old🤔🤔!! Also, in my Church, the candle would be symbolic and not literal🤔🤔. Not to judge the Catholic Church and my Boyfriend was raised Catholic and left, but this is crazier than anything he experienced or anyone in his Family experienced🤔🤔!! Again, Thanks for sharing this hilarious Song😁😁😂😂, but I know that back when you were 5 years old, it was not funny at all🤔🤔!!
Fortunately you’ve got over that. That sounds like a cult. I’m not even anti-religious or anti-Christianity, but I actually get angry, when I hear these kind of stories.
I didn't anticipate a dryly sung ironic comedy-horror story when I started this, this is funny and weirdly dark on so many levels! 🤣🤣🤣 Based on how all bent out of shape the others got from you sneezing out the candle and taking it all way too seriously, makes me wonder: were the adults involved also autistic??? That, and the comedy of their hypocrisy and being so unforgiving! I mean, you were just a little sneezer, it probably happened because of the smoke irritating your nose as I know smoke causes me problems. This was a fun story for sure!
Sounds like child abuse. In Japan they passed a law prevents indoctrinating children into harmful religious practices, like teaching them they'll go to hell for being bad. Progress.
Well, shoot! Someone blew out Jesus. Sorry kids! We're all going to Hell! Thanks a lot, Chloe! 🤣 As a fellow PK, who still holds to his Christianity (if a bit modified), thank you for sharing, I'm sorry it happened, and how foolish were that teacher and principal?! 🫂😅🤣
I think so many people are just plain wrong about whatever “Autism” is. We need a poll from those who have the most typical and noticeable symptom, the atypical speech pattern.
Okay, here’s my hypothesis: autistic maybe is a subset of the higher order concept of monotropic. What this means is that we are a type of human which is less able to deal with psychological stress and trauma from other people. We are extremely sensitive to our environment and also the overall zeitgeist (lack of a better word). We can, definitely not always have higher than average intelligence regarding concepts. We are more susceptible to ADHD. We are more capable of surviving on our own but at a cost to our abilities and personality. Our abilities can be self taught and we can even create new subjects, concepts, ideas, everyone can do this anyway but the monotropic person is uniquely gifted to these things.
its honestly surprising that even after all that you still wanted to be involved with Christianity😭 the secOnd i was exposed to any of the bad side of religion i was like "ya no i'm done😭"
i totally get that, im a Christian and some of this community uses the religion as an excuse to hurt people or discrimine against them but that's def not what the religion is about and i hope ppl who had these types of experiences learn that and don't grow to hate Christianity 💗✝️
