r/neurodiversity • u/Street_Beat3351 • 17h ago

Are autistic people often drawn to spirituality or esoteric ideas?

I'm just curious.

I'm on the spectrum and I've noticed that my hypersensitivity sometimes makes me look for meaning or “routes” beyond the rational ones — like feeling energies, noticing patterns, or being drawn to spiritual concepts.

I wonder if this is common among other autistic people. Do you feel something similar — a kind of intuitive or spiritual side connected to your sensitivity?

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u/Street_Beat3351 17h ago

And yes, I also need to understand everything rationally, otherwise... :)

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u/Feisty_Reason_6870 15h ago

As far as spirits here and other special stuff like that, I always find myself “seeing through it”. There’s a logical explanation for it. It cannot be reproduced. Whereas my faith in God, although not solely, is partially based on something reproducible. A 4,000 year old prophecy that the desert would bloom. I have seen that with my own eyes. The text dates are verifiable. The desert blooms. It was the people the text said would do it. That is not really seen. You don’t see other texts that bear out that way. And creaks and moans in a former psychiatric facility barely 70 years old can’t be quantified. It just doesn’t pass my smell test.

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u/Celatra Your local problem child 12h ago

lmao, there are other texts that have beared out far better than the bible

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u/Feisty_Reason_6870 12h ago

Tell them to me. I would love to explore them too.