Can austistics have paranormal abilities?

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I'm just really curious. I know I've had times when I can feel people's anger or sadness. I feel negative emotion and react to it in a very outburst like manner for no reason. I've noticed that I also sense my grandfather once in a while too. He died when I was a year old but I always feel as if he is always with me. My mom told me that he was my guardian angel.

Whenever I go by a cemetery, I feel like I can feel lost souls. It drains me so much that I feel powerless, weak and even unable to move. I often try to cover myself in a ball or something to get rid of it. I sense spirits but sometimes only in places more likely for them to appear.

I don't if it's just hallucination or not but sometimes I just feel these things. I also believe in paranormal as well and I love anything that has to do with it too. I watch Ghost Hunters the most but haven't lately though. Yet, I also fear having this kind of power. I fear it because sometimes sensing ghosts can be scary and very unknown to me. I know some don't mean harm but there are just times I can't help it.

But then... often times I wonder if I'm just hallucinating or something. I mean I never really know because I feel like this power tends to vary depending on the spirit and if wants to be noticed. I have times when I feel like something else takes over me and I can sense someone else is there. I even hear things no one else hears too.

I used to believe that the laundry room of my house is haunted. Everytime I would stand there I felt like something was actually there. I had a dream that the spirit came to me and I saw it standing there in that dream when I was sleeping on the couch. I often have dreams that have also come true EXACTLY as I had dreamed but not often. It's only happened once but I know it wans't coincedence. I have times when I can sense things too. Not just spirits. Like, I just get this overwhelming feeling something will happen to me. It usually ends up happening.

I just don't know whether to think its something I just want to believe of I really have some sort of power here. D:

A good chunk of this could be autistic hypersensitivity and disconnection from the outer world making some individuals more aware of stuff more-so than others and that is beyond our present material reality.

It's possible. I guess it could make sense since maybe the spirits feel like they can relate to me. I often feel they attach to me and I sense them that way. I've had lots of strange things happen to me too that I can never even begin to explain.

There are two possibilities about what you are describing.

1. There is forces beyond what we have yet evolved to be able to understand, but can sense. Our minds can't point out exactly what it is we sense at times or why but you piece things you are not aware of sub-consciously

2. The imagination is a powerful thing and ideas can develope in our minds without us knowing how

There is definitely truth in both them!

I am a very super superstitious person and believe it is possible that life exists beyond what humans can see. Whether that be in our world or in a different dimension or plane of existence.

If paranormal abilities exist, then yes. If not, then no.

But be careful you're not mistaking subconscious pattern-recognition or unrecognized savant skills as "paranormal".

As for me, I won't believe someone has a paranormal ability unless it's been carefully tested and documented; and then I'll want to find the mechanism for it so it can't be called "paranormal" anymore. I'm just scientific like that.

Well, lately I haven't had those feelings. The last time I really felt I was being drained was when we went by a cemetery and I felt like something was taking over my body and draining it of everything. I feel like if its really anything I am feeling that it triggers mostly from the spirit's emotional stand point, especially if its a lost soul. I feel like I understand emotional aspects of the spirits than I do myself or actual people around me. I guess in a way, I seem to attract them because they know that if they show their emotional side it won't really bother me very much.

That sounds like empathy rather than psychic powers to be honest.

I think you may have been having an emotional reaction to the cemetery itself; I've heard a lot of talk around here about people emotionally connecting to inanimate objects. And then there's the added phenomenon of the way we tend to have more death anxiety than most people do, without the buffer of social group identity to distance us from the existential dilemma. I think what you were feeling was probably a very strong empathy--a part of the human mind, and something that can be explained by science, but which science doesn't fully define simply because it can't touch what someone subjectively experiences, but only physical, measurable quantities.

Science doesn't hold the only key to truth. There are truths that science can't discover because they don't relate to measurable things. However, all measurable things must be provable (at least theoretically) by science, or else they're not true.

True but empathy and being psychic could be linked you know.

How many times have people said the have sensed something good or bad happening to their family or friends from a different room or from somewhere far away.

Its a subject we are only scratching the surface of but I am quite a spiritual and open minded person and believe there is types of life forces that inter-connect all life on this planet.

I know someone who does a form of healing called Ray-kay (not sure on spelling). It is to do with spiritual energy and without touching me she is able to help calm me and clear my head.

Belief is what makes it real because being skeptic blocks your mind from being able to do it.

I don't think it would be empathy either. I mean often times I feel like someone else is there that I don't even know the person. I can sense that in a spiritual sense. It's like I can sense something that doesn't belong but no one else around feels or even senses it. I mean if it was just empathy, I would at least have some awareness towards it and know where it was coming from.

There was even one time at our old place. I had this encounter where I had gotten something out of the dryer to get ready for school. Both my parents were sleeping and it was just me that whole time. I could have sworn I had actually closed the door of the dryer door because I heard it's click. I turn my back only for a second and I hear it open and I turn to see that it was actually OPEN. Now if you can explain to me how a door can open by itself when it was clearly secured closed. Plus, my back only being turned for a split second, no way could anyone have actually come by without me realizing it and opening it without me hearing something. I would have noticed if it was my mom or dad or even my cat or something.

While I'm not knowledgeable about paranormal abilities, I've always wondered if there was some kind of link between autism and the paranormal or abnormal. Being autistic and having that different kind of mind, perceiving things differently, perhaps we see things (in this case, the paranormal) that others don't see, or miss.

Anything's possible, but I don't really lean either way. I used to be part of the Otherkin community, where there was certainly a larger percentage of people who studied this kind of stuff. The notable thing about that, is that I heard the term "Asperger's" on numerous occasions there, possibly a link again.

As for spirits, I've been to few funerals throughout my life, I'm not that close to relatives that have died - nor do I really know anyone that has, so if there were spirits I don't think any would bother with me. When I was a kid I have been able to tell if anything's looking at me, which unfortunately I've lost that ability. Sometimes, I see something happening in the future, and it happens. It could all be coincidence, but that could also apply to many other things.


The first part of your post, sounds like empathy - that kind of empathy, is linked to paranormal abilities, however, empathy typically is something most autistics do not have as much of, compared to NT's.

Why not? I can feel people's "auras". Animals that will not even let their owners touch them let me pick them up. I have dreams where things happen and real life is extactaly like my dream. My family who obviously isn't NT, has been able to communicate with the dead for generations. I think people with autism are so sensetive, they can perceive things that normal people cannot even begin to comprehend.

I think everyone can.

There isn't such a thing as a paranormal ability, so no.