Psychic ability & Autism

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Does anyone here believe in psychic abilities? If you do, do you think it might be possible people on the Autistic spectrum might have stronger psychic abilities than NTs, or could it be that it is actually less?

I'd be interested in any opinions or links on the subject that anyone may have. We can also discuss psychic powers in general and whether or not it is real.

I do believe in those things. I think I might be a phychic myself. I picture things that happen in the future. When Mom calls my house in the evening when she is coming home, I know the exact place where she is at. I would not like to tell Mom, but she has to know everything about me.

My son always seems to know what I'm thinking (he's Aspie), always has done. He also has prophetic dreams .

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I'm extremely sceptical about psychic abilities. There is little proof of it, except for what people claim to have experienced in their personal lives. I have been able to guess the future, and I think I have had dreams that have come mostly true, but I mainly believe in chance/coincidence. And there is also the fact that some people are better at guessing outcomes of things than others. Are Aspies better at guessing than NTs? Possibly. I might look into it... do some more studying on the paranormal. But it would take a personal experience to get me to believe, probably.

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I do belive partly in it but not in the conventional view, I belive that people can sometimes have another sense in that, sensing something is wrong or something like that but generally I think its rubbish or very educated guesses

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There's no reason to think that people on the spectrum would be more likely to have psychic abilities than anyone else. We still haven't found any testable psychic ability in anyone; so we don't know enough to tell.

I do think that people with PDDs are more perceptive than most people; the same thing that gives you sensory overload also ensures you notice EVERYTHING... things other people don't notice. Most Aspie/Auties haven't got nearly as many "filters" between their senses and their brains than NTs.

If you were to process that information subconsciously, you might perceive it as "psychic ability".

If you process it consciously, then you are a "genius", "very perceptive", or have "savant skills".

But it's the same thing... a matter of processing.

I still wonder about this particular incident, which seems to be particularly strange:
A friend sent me a package without giving me any clue as to what was in it. As I was carrying it to my room to open it, I had the idea that it contained a kitten, stuffed by a taxidermist. That was exactly what it contained; except the kitten was made of rabbit fur, not cat fur. How did I know that?

Then there was the time I had a (lucid) dream in which I told my sister to contact me; and she e-mailed me the next day (after months of silence)...

Those two incidents are the most "psychic" of my life's history of weird coincidences. There are other such incidents in my life, but those, so far as I can tell, can be easily explained by the "acute perception/subconscious processing" theory.

But all those sorts of stories are just testimonials... isolated incidents, not any sort of proof. They haven't been corralled into quantifiable terms, and they're not testable.

That's what's so frustrating: Our brains look for patterns, coincidences; and without finding some way to test these occurrences scientifically, there's no way to know what's "psychic" and what's just a coincidence. Yet we still look for patterns, and see them, and wonder why they're there; it's in our nature to see a pattern, and to assume that a pattern means a cause. It's why we see pictures in the clouds.

Exactly. In my opinion it all has to do with logical facts; Aspies have hyper-sensory, so they hear more things, and hear them more clearer. They also are more sensitive to the things going on around them, as far as I can tell. This means, like you said, that if we process this information, we appear to have more insight into the "magical realm" because we just put two and two together. It all has to do with paying attention to what is going on around you, and making educated guesses.

We more or less just analyze the world around us which inhibits forsight.

I've been called psychic before, by work mates. But, I got nuthun'. I just watch closer than some, analyze more completely, predict several possibilities, and ramble on constantly about everything when I'm stressed. Sometimes one of my predicted possible outcomes happens and forever, after that, I'm a psychic to the people who were there.

The creepiest premonition-like thing that I've ever experienced was dreaming for years about the WTC disaster. I didn't think it would fall straight into itself, though. The whole thing just seemed too obvious, to me. It had to happen. That knowledge just made the whole thing my fault, ya know.

Now my cat IS psychic. He's always proving he's hooked up to something about to happen. Once, my wife was working late, out of town, I was already asleep when the cat woke me up, freaked out about something. I tried to let him out, I checked his bowl and his box. What else is there? All he did was panic and run around crying. A few minutes later my wife called and she had just hit a deer with her car on the way back and she was really upset. At this point, the cat was calmly watching me, probably judging my performance. I could easily have slept right through the phone ringing, if I hadn't already been awake, but she needed some help. Rocky, my boxing cat, is the psychic, not me.

I would have to agree to some point that HF-aspies can be psychic because i am an example of one.

In any type of human interaction wether it is texting/face to face talking i have this uncanny ability to know what people are thinking and what the feel about things from context clues such as their use of words/language/body language /facial expressions/eyemovements. I feel as if i understand people so well i can control them because i know what they are going to say, and how they will react to anything i say... it makes ti really hard for me to socialize because i can always see the truth. And knowing the truth about what people feel about everything you have to say really really hurts. its hard knowing the true nature of even the good people in the world.

if people can relate to me how do you cope with this? how do you not hate everyone and think they are so fu*king stupid? i dont want to feel so pretentious but i think its my human nature to feel some pride on this subject.
I hate it.

but yes, i think "psychics" are real, just not the ones who can predict far distant futures.

Straw Man. I don't really believe in psychic phenomena but at least use good logic in your refutation.

I suspect that under certain conditions, the differences in autistic perception and processing could easily be interpreted as psychic abilities. If I perceive the world on a sensory level instead of a verbal/abstract level, then I would "see" things that can't be seen by a non-autistic. If I also were able to translate that "sight" into the verbal/abstract, I could be seen as having special knowledge.

I read tarot cards
Also i get dreams, premonitions, messages many of my hunches have come true.
I have shocked myself with my psychic abilities
Also i have learnt astrology