Thanks for this great interview, Savannah and Candy! It is always good to see how and why others do what they do. We can learn so much from each other! Candy, I especially loved this quote: "As a parent of grown and married children, I have learned that our success has little to do with the things we did or didn’t do. God uses the weak and base things (me!) to confound the wise. It is God’s grace evident in our lives. He has richly blessed us." It is good for me, as someone with small children, to remember all of that on a daily basis!

I'm not a part of the autistic families community, although I do have friends who are. I see this all the time, however, in other online communities of which I am a part and what you have to say has recently been often the topic of conversation on several online forums that I have seen. My sense of this is that it is much easier to attack and tear each other down when it feels so impersonal and technical here on the internet.

Hypocrisy by definition is: The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

You are twisting the definition of the word hypocrisy. If we were to use your definition as expressed in this blog, most likely 100% of us would fit the bill. We can't say one is a hypocrite for CHANGING their belief either by coming to a new understanding of a tenet of their faith, by coming to a new faith or just by having their conscience pricked. Would a woman who used to tell white lies to her partner, but came to a new moral conclusion that this was wrong then be a hypocrite for counseling a friend to be completely honest in her relationships? How much more so we must respect the changes that come to a person through new faith. And coming to a new faith is a life-changing circumstance and it does not always require one to change churches. Sometimes one can have attended religious services all of their life and suddenly come to a new understanding of what it is that is being taught simply by virtue of either age or maturity or even by the simple act of finally professing true faith.

I am not opposed to your posting this information. It's good to know people's backstories and where they came from, but to call someone a hypocrite because they previously behaved one way but now behave another is incorrect.

We just posted a blog about the space where you write as well! It can be so important!
My recent post Are You Using the Space, Place and Pace Tactic to Improve Your Journaling Experience?