Aspies For Freedom

This whole thread is rather strange, in that this morning I was thinking of starting one on this subject.

I am curious as to whether anyone else has had anything like this experience:-

When my AS son was about 2 or 3 years old, he was playing with his toy cars & I was sitting in an armchair.
He said "mummy, that lady what is sitting in the chair with you is watching the television."
I asked what she was wearing.
He said " A black hat and black jumper &  black trousers."
I didn't refer to it again, but a couple opf days later, he said that the lady was crying because I was spoiling her house.

What I find strange is that he was far to young to have made this up.

I have since had some rather strange experiences, which have always served to protect me from something bad.

Thanks.

Another strange experience, but I won't tell any more after this I don't want to bore anyone.
The only things I am frightened of ( except for people ) are spiders.
I recently worked 12 hour shifts, getting up at 5.30 am & arriving home at 8pm.
One time I came home & had to change my bedding I have never ever come home from a long day & done this, but I was compelled to do it.
I stripped most of the bed & found the biggest ever spider under my pillow.
I was living on my own with my young child, so had to deal with it, via the vaccuum cleaner the b****** thing was so big it rattled it's way up the hose, which then had to hang out of the window overnight.

Why did I have to change the bedding? how could I know that thing was in my bed?
Weird!!

My apologies if someone has already pointed this out, but science just boils down to trying to disprove/improve your current hypothesis. Anything ‘paranormal’/’religious’ etc is no different, except for one thing! People often stop questioning it.

A woman who I consider a good friend recently told me that she:

Decided that she couldn’t understand (but knew) that the universe is infinite, and that there was no wall at the end of it, but that this was beyond her comprehension, so why should the bible and god and all that be any different? She told me that she had studied the bible and decided that she accepted it fully!

I asked her if she had read the gospel of Judas, she said she had probably skimmed over it, I told her they only found it in a cave a few years ago I then went on to tell her that in my opinion she was using the bible as that exact same wall, the wall at the end of the universe, that she was trying to avoid. Nobody says that anything branded as ‘paranormal’ is incorrect, we just ask that you look at it objectively, to avoid getting caught up in the moment and making the [over emotional] mistakes that the parents of ASD kids often make, such as using chelation (and other jiggery pokery).

Look here for an example: http://www.autism-watch.org/about/bio2.shtml

I think what you are referring to 654321 is ‘the difference between science practiced badly and people calling science by another name, but practicing it well', which often happens. Never forget that nothing excites a scientist more then to be left with a question at the end of a study, because it means that there is more to study, and shows them that they are not reaching conclusions Willie nilly.

Sorry if any of that came out wrong, it was not meant to sound offensive! I am not doubting that you have had experiences you can not explain M, so have I. I am just unable to grasp this line people draw between science and other things. I admit I am more likely to trust something published by a peer reviewed journal, but that is only because these people are less likely (in my experience) to try and con me or to succumb to emotional stimuli. I think everything should be studied with a scientific methodology, as the Buddha himself did,

I used to experience this, it happens to everyone from time to time. It happens because of the way our brain works. The part of our brain that thinks verbaly works after the rest of our brain, and so what we hear (and sometimne what we see/lip read) is absorbed into our conciosnes before we are actualy fully concious and aware of what is going on around us, so we think we have the ‘hindsight’ to follow the speech/song/etc! In reality we can’t tell what is going on before it has happened in the way we suspect, and I think it relates to our brains attempt to read body language, and similar enviromental/socail cues (which is never as acurate as NT’s think it is). I think this part of the brain is different in aspies, hence we sometimes experience the phenonamon you described  more, but don’t pick up on the body language in most cases. I find following a lecture in this way useful for memorizing what is said, so it is a good skill to have.

I am still trying to grasp the if there is a scientific explanation bit.

If something has happened, then either a course of events led to it happening or not. Even if that course of events (or non existent course of events) is something that a human can never comprehend, that does not stop that course of events (or non existent course of events) from having happened (or not happened). That course of events/non course of events [b]is[/is] the scientific explanation, not because technology, or high IQ's are involved, just simply because it is a truthful explanation of things. I just think the word 'scientific' is redundant, and that it just causes people to worry that someone is trying to explain something away to quickly.

Do you think that to wonder

is the same as to wonder whether it happened spontaneously and without cause? Even if it is, I would not put that path of thought down as unscientific, just as path rarely explored by science

Yeah, I sense deaths, usually before and usually only people I am close to. And I tend to call people when they need to be called. And I see scenes that happen later. I've had some fairly lucid things happen -- My dead uncle woke me up when I went to attend his funeral to tell me that he was not finished.  (And what am I supposed to do with that?)  Years later, after a drink or five, I shared this with his oldest daughter and she asked how he woke me up.  When I told her she was very quiet and then said that she was creeped out because that is exactly the way he woke her up when he was alive.

By the way, I generally don't talk about such things.  People don't deal with it very well.  I believe, however, that most people have had such experiences.  I think they convince themselves that they imagined things.