Vaccines are in the news. The Centers for Disease Control have dropped the recommendation for vaccinating newborns against hepatitis B due to potential long-range harm. While appreciating the need for certain vaccines, we have long expressed concern that some of them were developed from the stem cells of aborted babies while at least one, for polio, is claimed by some to have caused autism.

Unlike autism, polio can kill, and many who survived the disease were left with lifelong impacts such as leg braces, crutches, or wheelchairs. Others had to use an artificial respirator (known as the “iron lung”), which was designed specifically to treat polio patients. By 1950, the disease was paralyzing or killing more than 500,000 people a year. So the elimination of a vaccine for it is very questionable.

But side effects should not be discounted and about autism: besides the issue of vaccination, there potentially is a deep spiritual aspect.

For generations, autism has been framed almost exclusively through clinical lenses—neurology, psychology, developmental challenges, behavioral metrics.

Yet hovering around the edges of this discussion, whispered quietly in parent circles, caregiver testimonies, mystical commentary, and even in certain branches of neuroscience, is an idea both ancient and startlingly modern: that some individuals on the autism spectrum may access forms of communication that border on the telepathic—direct mind-to-mind linkage or heightened intuitive resonance not easily explained by conventional science.

Occult stuff, or simply an undiscovered ability at telepathy (one that certainly distinguishes the mind-brain from what AI ever will be able to do)?

Parents of autistic children (again, possibly caused in some cases by vaccination) frequently report that the child senses emotions without cues, knows what a parent is thinking before words are spoken, anticipates events with uncanny accuracy, or responds to a prayer or interior request never verbalized.

None of these parents consider their children “magical.”

They simply notice patterns too consistent to dismiss.

Meanwhile, neuroscientists studying autism speak of hyper-connected neural networks, non-verbal information processing, and heightened perceptual acuity.

In spiritual language, those might be called interior senses.

Some children cannot speak, yet they “know.” Some struggle with basic conversation, yet read emotional truth like scripture. Communication without speech—if not telepathy in the literal sense, it is certainly something close.

You can travel from Brazil to Canada, from Ireland to India, and hear the same testimonies.

A father in Ontario describes his eight-year-old autistic son responding correctly to math problems the father had silently rehearsed in his mind—not the ones spoken aloud.

A mother in New Mexico describes a non-verbal teen who signs or gestures the exact thing the mother was inwardly debating.

A family in Italy recounts an autistic child who runs to assist his baby sibling seconds before distress begins.

And many Christian parents share that their autistic children respond directly to unspoken prayers, as though picking up spiritual wavelengths not accessible to others. These stories invite a question: are some autistic individuals wired to perceive human intention and emotional reality with supernatural clarity?

Surprisingly, science does not rule it out. While mainstream researchers hesitate to use the word “telepathy,” they increasingly acknowledge phenomena that sound remarkably close—especially in individuals with atypical neural wiring. Many autistic individuals process sensory data in volumes far exceeding typical neurology; what appears as overwhelm may also be over-awareness.

Some may process internal states differently—not less, but more intensely—sometimes blurring the line between sensing another person and experiencing them.

Their enhanced pattern recognition allows them to detect meaning in human behavior that others miss.

Many think in imagery, emotion, or instantaneous comprehension rather than in spoken language.

Telepathy, if real, would likely function through similar channels.

Christian mysticism often teaches that the soul communicates without sound. In Scripture and countless modern reports, angels do not always speak aloud.

God Himself communicates interiorly—through intuition, inspiration, or sudden knowing.

Through locutions. Through “words of knowledge.”

If humans are made in the image of God, it is not impossible that some individuals might express or receive communication in ways closer to the angelic than the verbal.

Speech is a gift, but it can be a distraction. Many autistic individuals live in a world where words are not the primary currency; instead, they operate through presence, intention, emotional resonance, and direct perception. These are also the languages of prayer.

The ancient desert fathers retreated into silence to hear the things of God.

 In Scripture, Jesus repeatedly discerned people’s unspoken thoughts.

While at this point we can’t equate autism with mystical insight, echoes of this sensitivity and hidden interior mystical perception are difficult to ignore.

In an age obsessed with speech—tweets, posts, arguments, sound bites—the autistic mind may stand as a quiet witness to a deeper truth: that words are not the only form of communication, and perhaps not even the deepest form.

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