Table of Contents
Foreword xiii
1 It's Not just You 1
2 Together, yet Apart 9
3 Blessed Are My Fellow People on the Autism Spectrum (and Those Who Can Relate to Us) 19
4 Blessed Are Those of Us Who Apparently Landed on the Wrong Planet 27
5 Blessed Are the Unfeeling Faithful 37
6 Blessed Are the Unfeeling Faithful, Part 2: Real "Fruit" 51
7 Blessed Are the Introverted Evangelical Failures 57
8 Blessed Are the People Who Can't Pray Worth a Darn 69
9 Blessed Are the People Who Just Read That Last Chapter but Still Have Some Questions 79
10 Blessed Are the Wounded 87
11 Blessed Are Those Who Don't Have Amazing Spiritual Stories 97
12 Blessed Are the impostors 107
13 Blessed Are the Introverts Who Keep Trying 115
14 Blessed Are the Perpetual Strugglers 127
15 Blessed Are the People Who Do Church Anyway 137
16 Blessed Are the Melancholy and the Depressed 151
17 Blessed Are Those Who Don't Take Themselves So Seriously 161
18 Blessed Are the Skeptics and Those Who Don't Know Where Else to Go 171
19 Blessed Are the Unnoticed 185
20 Blessed Are the Lonely 199
21 Blessed Are the Misfit Royalty 209
Acknowledgments 217
A Special Appendix: A Misfit Roll Call 219
Notes 227
About the Author 233