Quote from: penguin1332694 on April 02, 2009, 07:00:11 PMAlso my mom is all about god and how you were created as you are for a reason.
In the same way that God or Nature or whatever causes people to be born autistic or to have downs or be born with ambiguous genitalia or a cleft lip or a club foot or having eidetic memory or a vestigial tail or a sixth toe or any of hundreds of other neurological and biological variations out there, (s)he caused your hypothalamus not to develop in parralel with your body. Some variations are beneficial, some of them are horrible, and some of them simply make you different. Nature, God, whatever is all ABOUT variation, and ultimately it boils down to YOUR quality of life. If you're autistic but a genius and happy to be such, don't change it. If you've got a cleft lip that causes you social and personal harm, it would be cruel of anybody to deny you that change, should you want it.
God, if (s)he does exist, made us the way we are to grow and to teach and to live and love and be healthy and happy. If your mom is willing to deny you this, then she should never use a doctor, reject medication or blood transplants or surgery, reject developmental psychology and science and technology and every other instance where we "interfere" with God's "will".
You are who and what you are for a reason, but your mom is not the person to determine what that reason is. She has no idea what God's opinion is on you simply because she is in no position to ask, and if she's going to put thoughts in God's head, or words in his/her mouth, then she's committing a sin, to my mind.
Mina.