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Autism/Cerebral Palsy and psychic abilities.

HighToryPsychic

Hello. A couple weeks ago I was talking with my cognitive therapist about the link between my autism and my CP, and apparently a massive 7% of people with CP have autism, compared to just 1% of the general population. Which was a shock to me because I thought my autism was genetic and my CP was because of medical negligence when I was born. Add to this I am a psychic and I have lost of innate psychic abilities, which I have to shut down when I am around other people, as another form of masking. Then I also have ADHD which means I make a lot of faces and tap things a lot. 

I just think my brain has been through a lot and its amazing my brain has survived and kept functions so I could rebuild it as a adult. Another thing is that I can feel my brain working, like the different parts functioning and I don't think most people can do that. Just wonder what other people think could be going on with the link between autism, CP and psychic abilities, which I think is down to my brain being damaged so I can't filter things out which normal peoples brain's do. So I find it really awkward socializing and making close relationships. As you can see its 4 in the morning when I am thinking about this and this is why my brain is most aware and active. 

Thanks for any feed back. 

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  • Interesting, I don''t kknow what you see your psychic abilities to be, is this supernatural or something different?

    I don't know if this could come from your cerebral palsy or autism but some research has shown that people with autism are more sensitive to supernatural events than neurotypicals..perhaps is this is due sensory sensitivity or something else...

    Research by Ingela Visuri in 2018 found that autistics have increased somasensory perceptions which lead to increased supernatural experiences. See below for basically in a nutshell was they argued-
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2153599X.2018.1548374

    “non-autistic group participants, and current research suggests that unusual somatosensory experiences are prevalent in the autistic population. Attribution of invisible agency is understood as a sense-making coping strategy, and it is argued that esoteric content in fantasy literature, movies and computer games explain why these young adults prefer to attribute agency to ghosts, spirits and demons, rather than god(s). The study thereby extends and challenges the study of autism and religiosity by exploring the intersection between autistic embodiment and encultured cognition”.

    More research later in Autism and Religion in 2023 found the below-
    “We dispute the assumption that individuals with ASD are inherently less religious and spiritual than the neurotypical population. Religiosity is possibly expressed differently in ASD with unique spiritual experiences and beliefs (“gifted, visionary, and truth-seeker”).
    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10453845/

    ......

    I am a very sensory person but not pyschic. i have worked with though with the Holy Spirit in my faith which was probably enchanced by being sensory sensitive.

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  • Interesting, I don''t kknow what you see your psychic abilities to be, is this supernatural or something different?

    I don't know if this could come from your cerebral palsy or autism but some research has shown that people with autism are more sensitive to supernatural events than neurotypicals..perhaps is this is due sensory sensitivity or something else...

    Research by Ingela Visuri in 2018 found that autistics have increased somasensory perceptions which lead to increased supernatural experiences. See below for basically in a nutshell was they argued-
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2153599X.2018.1548374

    “non-autistic group participants, and current research suggests that unusual somatosensory experiences are prevalent in the autistic population. Attribution of invisible agency is understood as a sense-making coping strategy, and it is argued that esoteric content in fantasy literature, movies and computer games explain why these young adults prefer to attribute agency to ghosts, spirits and demons, rather than god(s). The study thereby extends and challenges the study of autism and religiosity by exploring the intersection between autistic embodiment and encultured cognition”.

    More research later in Autism and Religion in 2023 found the below-
    “We dispute the assumption that individuals with ASD are inherently less religious and spiritual than the neurotypical population. Religiosity is possibly expressed differently in ASD with unique spiritual experiences and beliefs (“gifted, visionary, and truth-seeker”).
    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10453845/

    ......

    I am a very sensory person but not pyschic. i have worked with though with the Holy Spirit in my faith which was probably enchanced by being sensory sensitive.

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  • in reply to RachelO

    I don't think that psychic and the supernatural are the same, I'm not even sure I believe in the "supernatural", how can something be outside of nature? But I do think that what we call psychic abilities are innate in all of us and are evolutionary but atrophied in many people.

    One of the things I've noticed over the years of talking to people about being psychic, is that they've all had some level of childhood trauma, or a big dose of trauma as an adult, like being in a war zone. We know the autistic brain is different to an NT one, we know that ND children often struggle with school and often bullied, I think this leads to our psychic abilities remaining open, as we need that early warning system. I think it closes off in many people, on the whole compared to our early ancestors our world is relatively safe, we don't have to worry large predators etc, we also tell children what magical beings and experiences to believe in, Father Xmas is OK as is the Tooth Fairy, but only up to a certain age. I think we deliberately shut down our psychicness and lable people who still have it as mad or deluded, but definately not normal.

    Yet remain open it does, for many people, they sense things, sometimes things that are more on the "supernatural" end of the scale, like awareness of people who've died, sudden feelings of sorrow in certain places only to find out that something bad happened in that place. I've never known a time when I wasn't for want of a better word psychic, or when I'd not been aware of things not usually accepted in the everyday world. To me it's entirely natural and normal and even everyday. I know some people want hard evidence and lots of it, and I can't give it to them, oddly those who don't experience these things are much more exercised by my experience than I am by their lack of them.