Good grief.
No-one would deny that the parents of autistic children have a stronger bond with them than others.
But the idea that those children objectively have telepathic abilities, as some sort of compensation for, or side-effect of their disabilities, is at best wishful thinking.
I feel it would be wrong to directly criticise parents claiming such a link; equally it would be wrong to accept those claims, in themselves, as evidence of a real phenomenon.
I predict that, if relevant parents allowed their children to participate in a well-constructed study (in which the comfort and wellbeing of the subjects is of course prioritised) no evidence of telepathy would be found.
I further predict that if Diane Hennacy Powell is involved, she will not accede to a well-constructed study conducted by appropriate impartial researchers.
Despite claiming to have found a completely new model of neuroscience that might explain telepathy, precognition and other "psy" phenomena, I'm unaware of Diane publishing
any papers on this revolutionary breakthrough.
External Quote:
Instead of ignoring anomalous phenomena such as precognition, telepathy, clairvoyance, and out of body experiences, I wondered if there is a model that could explain all of these. It turns out that there is. My proposed model will be the topic of my next book, which is tentatively titled: Misunderstood.
Diane Hennacy Powell, "Meet Dr. Diane",
https://drdianehennacy.com/meet-dr-diane-hennacy/, where there are several other, um, interesting morsels of information:
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...I met a woman who is considered a National Treasure by India, because she had spontaneously started speaking Sanskrit, without any exposure. She is reportedly very psychic, and had become a guru to many people. In one of our meetings, she told me that I was a Tulku, which didn't mean anything to me. She said that a Tulku was a Bodhisattva, and that one day I would meet someone connected with the Dalai Lama and find out that this is my path.
Had to check "Bodhisattva",
External Quote:
In Buddhism, a bodhisattva (English: /ˌboʊdiːˈsʌtvə/ BOH-dee-SUT-və; Sanskrit: बोधिसत्त्व, romanized: bodhisattva; Pali: बोधिसत्त, romanized: bodhisatta) or bodhisatva is a person who is on the path towards bodhi ('awakening') or Buddhahood.
Wikipedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva
Note Diane doesn't question the claim that someone is "very psychic".
External Quote:
...I met a Native American medicine man and paleontologist. He has been using the archives of interviews by J. P. Harrington with elders from over a century ago. Their voices and beliefs were meticulously recorded, and are enabling us to learn as much as possible about their religion as it was practiced then... ...We are working on a book about this knowledge which is tentatively titled: Signs from Heaven. I feel honored to have been initiated into this religion, and had my naming ceremony In April 2018.
Diane might be honoured, but she doesn't mention the name of the religion she claims to be a part of. Presumably everything about that Native American religion is completely compatible with her path to Buddhahood.
Could go on; there's a short item "The Big Eclipse" where she describes
not seeing a total solar eclipse because she had to catch a flight. She receives a Native American name meaning "raven", and next day sees a raven.
Less fun, there's a lot of pseudoscientific crap where she links vaccines to autism.
To be honest, I have little faith in Hennacy Powell's "Telepathy Project"; maybe she means well but to me it's, well, grotesque.