Can autistic people predict future?

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11 Jan 2014, 1:31 pm

Hello Friends,
I've heard that autistic people can predict future events or tendencies/trends...
Can you?..
Can you confirm?.. Deny?..

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11 Jan 2014, 1:35 pm

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11 Jan 2014, 1:39 pm

This seems like a strange thing to ask.

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11 Jan 2014, 1:40 pm

Nope

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11 Jan 2014, 1:50 pm

i have never been able to predict the future. i try my best to, but its more like a mental preparation to avoid meltdowns

who the hell told you that anyways?

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11 Jan 2014, 1:58 pm

Cre8iveHuman wrote:

Hello Friends,
I've heard that autistic people can predict future events or tendencies/trends...
Can you?..
Can you confirm?.. Deny?..

Hello and welcome to WP.

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11 Jan 2014, 1:58 pm

I'd say based on how well I know a person, I can predict what decisions they are likely to make and what the outcome would be. That's about it. I find I'm right a a lot, but I can also be wrong a lot as well. It's 50/50. I can't predict future events though.... too difficult.

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11 Jan 2014, 2:03 pm

We're not pre-cogs :roll: but some of us might benefit from trusting our best guesses more often.

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11 Jan 2014, 2:03 pm

Can't predict the future but I do get premonitions from time to time of events that have happened to me or the people around me. I get it in the form of a dream but it's different from an ordinary dream- it feels way more real and I just know that there is something different about it. It's confirmed when the event happens

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11 Jan 2014, 2:20 pm

Cre8iveHuman wrote:

Hello Friends,
I've heard that autistic people can predict future events or tendencies/trends...
Can you?..
Can you confirm?.. Deny?..

No we cannot predict the future. I think if our obsessive behavior is with patterns we can see patterns in people and social structures. With that we can make semi decent assumptions that someone is going to do this or that. Before I found a career I could function and be happy in I worked in retail (was terrible). Even though I didn't interact socially with most people I could and would pick up on people who were having affairs before everyone else. Also, at work I noticed a lady was pregnant before anyone else knew or announced it. I also watch a lot of people and how they interact from a distant (yup, been called creepy before) so when someone does something out of character for themselves i notice it. I might not understand why they do it and I dwell on it but I notice it.

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11 Jan 2014, 2:39 pm

A neurotypical cannot predict the future because the future is not socially acceptable with today's norms.

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11 Jan 2014, 2:46 pm

androbot2084,
I have had autistic tendencies in the past, as I guess from today's sight...
I have just overcome it...
So I understand you friends...

so as you think if a person accepts everything as is, without one's involvement, to "see" something in the future is possible...

Actually I guessed the same from my experience...