I will explain briefly what it is like and it explains some of what you wrote in the article. First and foremost, with autism I do not have intuitive understanding on how relationships work. I have a need for connection like anyone else but it does not come naturally – I intellectualize interacting with people fully. As a child I struggled to figure out how to make friends and how to behave appropriately in school and the world generally. So to get an understanding of others and how to interact, I learned to literally study and observe and internally put patterns together to get the information i need to know how to approach or talk to another person. So I watch people constantly and scan and process anyone I’m with. The result is that I have ended up being able to ‘read the room’ better than ‘normal’ people and this has been pointed out to me. I can read people and get a sense of them pretty thoroughly and deeply and accurately in short periods of time. Is it telepathy? Not at all – it’s a survival skill to navigate the world that i am not naturally wired to fully understand. But am intelligent enough to be able to integrate it through constant continuous study and observation.  Think of the way an anthropologist who is deeply embedded in a foreign culture over many years may be able to have a good and clear understanding of that culture – but never fully have the same perspective as they are not native to the culture. This is the best analogy I have to describe what it is like to have autism. Or what might be called ‘high functioning’ autism where my hyper-focus is not on systems, but on people. It is a super power – but very much a cross as well – as the ability to understand people becomes really deep, but also very lonely as I can understand them, and they can understand me intellectually, but will never be able to have the ability to fully understand them, nor they me neither. Sometimes this is painful to know the vast majority of people will never fully ‘get’ me so connection with friends and family will always be sort of incomplete – and they have no idea. All this said, I would not want to change as having my specific perspective on the world is a valuable contribution in a lot of ways.

Coming to the next point: when I met another person with the same brand of autism recently, there was a mutual recognition of each other that has resulted in a very close friendship. This is incredibly rare, and this person and I, because we both are attuned to people the same way, can literally communicate easily with each other while saying fragments of information, or even nonverbally by simply looking at each other and clocking each other’s emotion/thought. We fill in the gaps easily because we are so aware of each other’s internal wiring it feels like synapses can start in my head and complete in my friend’s. it feels as though we connect on a soul level – we are so similar in how we operate. No we are not telepathic, but have simply become able to recognize patterns on a remarkable level when i think of it. But that said, the world is less lonely since we met each other – because there is a deep mutual understanding of each other.

Perhaps this sort of intuitive communication is a whisper on how it exists beyond the veil. But while God likely meant for my friend and I to meet to be comforted and be reminded we are not alone, I think the substance of your article is more a mental and psychological pattern mapping skill than a supernatural one.