AutisticIncoming Links📙 PrayerAn Australian wrote to me about his concern for those who feel Autistic in Prayer: not only the depressed and those with borderline personality disorders, but also ordinary, timid people in the pews who feel undeserving of God’s attention.📙 The Second-Person Perspective in Aquinas’s EthicsThe most important further implication of this metaphor, as revealed in the case of joint attention, is that the ability to be moved by other persons is correlated with the ability to relate to others in a specifically second-personal sense. As noted previously, Autistic children, who do not generally engage in joint attention, have difficulty grasping the second-person relationship.Conversely, to lack the gifts means that one is unable to relate to God in a second-personal way, a condition that can be understood, metaphorically, by consideration of what specifies Autistic spectrum disorder in human relations.