Aspies For Freedom

Woof! How i detest neuro-typicity !

We only use 10% of our brains so some kind of "psykic" abilities are possible.
And who is to say that the autistic "State of mind" would not affect how we relate to these unused functions?

Hmm, interesting thread...surprised to find it here. I sit on both sides of the fence here, if that is possible. I have had some incredible experieces that logic couldn't explain, yet I still try to explain them with logic, until I am tied in knots. I have given readings and been incredibly accurate, but I never could bring myself to believe...or, well, I suppose to truly understand the possibility of their being anything other than a fluke or something naturally explainable.

More input on this whole subject would be interesting indeed. I once had the thought, that if the soul does indeed exist and is the intuitive, feeling part, then autism could be explained, in spiritual terms, as the soul having not fully managed to integrate with the human brain/mind...but then, some would say feelings come purely from electrical impulses firing from the brain... or that the concept of a soul is totally illogical, and that the complexities of the human mind can explain everything... anyway, I am rambling on here. ..

Lol, it is frustrating isn't it, there being somethings that you can analyse and analyse to the 9th degree, and still not be able to come up with some rational explanation.

What? I am very interested in the subject.  I know there are events that science cannot explain. (I am obsessed with science, specifically theoretical physics.)  Society places a stigma on such topics, so I generaly avoided the issue most of my life despite having many experiences that remained unexplained by my understanding of mainstream science.  The stigma is not directly the problem, I just did not feel that I could find sufficient objective information by which I could appreciate theories on such phenomena.  I recently came across a book titled Autism and the God Connection. This arose from a study I have been doing on society and culture. In an attempt to find out how to appreciate the internalized social indoctrination of culture that allows NTs the subconscious understanding and use of customs and norms that completely elude me, I came across this book. This book is written by a man with Asperger's.  He suggests those with autism tend to posses extrasensory perception (literal defintion minus social stigma).  He has accumualted many accounts of those on the spectrum demonstrating telepathy, precognition, and clairvoyance.  I have had many experiences throughout my life that fit the definitions of these words.  For exapmle: I often know when the cops will be around, especially if they will cause us problems [we found out about a corrupt cop and he threatened to kill us] and I often answer the door before people knock.  The latter I attributed to my hypersensitive hearing and a squeaky gate.  We changed the gate and I still do it.  I now attribute it to a sixth sense as I always tenatively have with the cops.  I think that living in a dangerous area and being forced to have to survive verse living has allowed me to develope this sense.  I had never attributed it to my autism though.  This guy who wrote the book makes alot of sense.  He says that alot of people on the spectrum, particularly with speech difficulty and especially of a great degree, are likely telepathic.  If you knew what others thought and felt, would you not expect others to be able to do the same?  If you gained information without exchanging words, would you ever gain an appreciation for the depth of how others rely on these word for communication?  If you communicated by the only way you ever truly understood, the way you have from birth (telepathically, and most likely in pictures) and others systematically ignore you, how would you learn to interact and cope?  Add to this sensory intergration difficulties like hyper/hypo sensitivity, visual disorganization (like reading a word and not being able to remember even the first letter), auditory processing disorders (this is my problem, spoken words have no substance), or even aphasia -- tell me how you would figure out the world?  Other people do not realize this and thereby are unable to explain it to these individuals so they begin to put their experiences into perspective.  This would also explain why those with autism respond better to sign language.  If you think in pictures, it only makes sense to "talk" in pictures -- I personally feel this way.  But one of the main points in his book is to always assume intellect.  He points out that people with autism are often in the gifted IQ range -- they just cannot merge what they experience with the outside world.  Nothing in science can explain autism.  Maybe the are looking in the wrong place.  I encourage you all to see if the local library has the book.  Think of experiences in your own lives.  I know I often have various "feelings" (emotional processes) or ideas for which I cannot find words (especially spoken.)  I also seem to pick up on other peoples ideas or state of mind beyond what I always tried to explain as a special understanding of body language. But several of my experiences do not involve any body language. (I have felt a need to move objects into another room to find someone in there looking for what I had. I have also had dreams about lost items in which I see the item and find it in that spot the next day.)  I have never explored or discussed such things as I was always afraid people would think I was a freak and lock me up.  (Like they need something beyond autism to think that )  Maybe the explanation of such phenomena is as simple as an ability science cannot observe to analyze.  Or maybe it is more complex.  (I have avoided discussing the "God connection" as I do not want to compound this with another aspect that science cannot address.  Note: I do go to church and believe in God. I also feel that even as God has given us a physical world we can analyze, it is likely this phenomena is a measurable event that can somehow be quantified and explained in the same terms as other seemingly elusive events.)

P.S.    Synesthesia (cross-sensory perception) is now well recognized and accepted.
  Here is a link:    http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9511/synesthesia/index.html

Great thread. Just this minute, I was just about to pick up my phone to call someone and they called me. The same thing happened with the same person yesterday. psychic? Yes?

On Tuesday, I was having a bad day, I got a phone call from a friend, who would not let me speak, but had to tell me that a lot of the problem was actually the other person, not me (I'd been blamed), I realised she was right.

The reason why I was having probs was because of this new relationship I had - the other person was running way too fast. So we decided to call it a day. within the next 24 hours I was contacted by four women looking to get to know me better. Phychic? No, its just my "god" does not like me to be lonely.

Great thread; happy to find it here.

I've been fascinated with all things paranormal for as long as I can remember.  And I believe in most of it, largely because those sort of abilities run in my family.  Nearly all of us on both sides have some sort of oddity of the paranormal kind.  My older sister used to move wineglasses without touching them; we all saw her do it, plenty of times.  My father studied magic as a teenager and has told me tons of weird stories about his experiences.  Most of us have seen ghosts, me included.

Myself, I have occasional precognitive experiences, I used to be able to heal headaches and migraines by staring at the person suffering them, and I see things sometimes.  Speaking of which, if any of you have seen the Green Man, DO NOT tell your psychiatrist this.  Trust me.

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Athie

That's interesting, Xen...I have something similar; when I wave my hand rapidly, I see "trails", you know what I mean?  Apparently this is common among people who take hallucinogens, but I never have.

Also, I see what I call "molecules", because I don't know what else to call them.  Nothing but fire looks solid to me, everything appears to be made up of tiny, faintly glowing dots.  Anyone remember that painting Cameron was staring at in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", the one that showed a park scene from a distance, but up close was just a mass of colored blots?

Well, that's how the world looks to me.  I'm near-sighted, but no eye doctor has ever been able to find any other problem with my eyes.  It's odd.

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Athie

<shriek>  Someone else sees the amoebas!  They look like something you'd see under a microscope, don't they?  For me, they glow too, but I can't describe the color.

The only other person I knew, before this, who had seen like I do was my younger sister.  It was just once, when she had a high fever.  I remember it freaked her so much that she was hiding under her blankets, saying, "How do you live like this?"  

<hugs>  Yay!  I'm not bonkers!  And that's one statement I've never had occasion to say...

Athie

Lucid dreams... probably 2 out of 3 nights. That's a natural ability, and I can't say I've "mastered" it since I don't yet have full control, and I can't induce them at will. But then, it's not really a "paranormal" thing so much as a "weird" thing, since it's been proven to exist.

...or sensitivity to ambient magnetic activity. The "alien abduction" experience is supposed to be very similar to many night time hauntings.

The weirdest thing that happened to me was when I was very young, and as if for no particular reason I was suddenly watching myself from the outside. I've heard of "outer body experiences" being a result of extreme fear or something like that, but this happened on an otherwise ordinary day and has not happened since.

I wonder if the different experiences during childhood could be a result of different thought patterns or brain structure or whatever.

According to much of folklore, talking to mysterious and silent black figures is supposed to be extremely harmful. (Especially black dogs, horses, or riders.)

They are best ignored.

Interesting stuff. I wish I had some of your powers, or rather, I wish I was developed enough to use the powers you are discussing.

Has anyone tried remote viewing?

I sensed when my brother died - I believe he came to say goodbye. He came back to help me with something the day after he died and again a couple of other times - once to offer to take my sisters child when the child was near death. I have on several ocassions picked up the thoughts of others - once my daughter was sleeping next to me and I picked up on her nightmare - another time playing eye spy - I read the thoughts of the person sitting next to me - it became embarrassing in the end - so I kept quiet. Another person made his presense felt - after he died. His presence made me feel really uncomfortable.