num_pages: 163
description: I am a congregational rabbi on the autism spectrum.How is that possible? How can I thrive in a profession that is pastoral, that rewards extroversion, that seems mostly for those who intuitively grasp social dynamics? I can’t understand my closest family members most of the time, let alone a room full of people whom I know only peripherally.And yet I have thrived.That is because along with the deficits of being on the spectrum, there are precious gifts that being neuroatypical bequeath me.But, to be honest, it took me a while to find them.
language: English
title: So Compassionate it Hurts: My Life as a Rabbi on the Spectrum
publisher: Independently Published