K.J. Elphinstone

"It is often said that autistics can sense other people's energy, and the slightest shifts and changes in them can throw us off balance and leave us feeling confused and frustrated."

#Autism #Autistic #LateDiagnosed #Neurodivergent

From 'Lost & Now Found: a guide to understanding and accepting yourself for late-discovered autistic adults' by Kate Laine-Toner and Suzi Payton

Aug 27, 2025 at 11:09amWeb
Show threadXantasticAug 27, 2025
@KatyElphinstone very very this... SOmeone in my house can be angry about a thing, I go up where they are, wlk through that energy, and oh my goodness, now I'm not necessarily as angry as they are about, exactly this thing, but I feel anger, and I can't do anything with it. Sorry for the run on sentence, it was an autistic thought stream :)
Show threadx0Sep 1, 2025
@cordova5029 @KatyElphinstone Is there an actual correlation between autism and this kind of empathy? I do wonder if there is which direction it goes. Is it more likely for a sensitive to be neurodivergent, or is it more likely for a neurodivergent person to be a sensitive, or is there some sort of direct link that requires one to be one to be the other? Hmmm. Or am I thinking too deep into this, does one not actually need to be a sensitive in my terms to feel that kind of thing?
Show threadXantasticSep 1, 2025
@x0 @KatyElphinstone I think you're reading a bit into it, but they are interesting questions. :)
Show threadx0Sep 1, 2025
@cordova5029 @KatyElphinstone I think the correlation I've heard of is that autistic and ND people in general are much more sensitive to the slightest cues, such as minute changes in tone, perhaps just because that's naturally the case or because they trained themselves to hyperfocus on those things as part of masking. But there is a difference between responding to an externally perceptible cue like that and actually sensing a person's inherent aura.
Show threadXantasticSep 1, 2025
@x0 @KatyElphinstone I can do both lol.
Show threadK.J. ElphinstoneSep 2, 2025

@x0

Not at all, and yes there is a correlation between being autistic and being a sensitive.

A strong one. There's hyper sensitivity in areas such as sensory, empathy, and imagination.

There's also evidence of telepathic phenomena with autistic people. Often between mother and child, for example. Recently there was a podcast 'the telepathy tapes'. There's a study on this, too... Lief Ekblad, I think the name was.

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Show threadK.J. ElphinstoneSep 2, 2025

@x0

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363379669_Telepathy_anomalous_experience_and_the_relation_to_the_autism_spectrum

And...

https://thetelepathytapes.com/

@cordova5029