Toward Ecosophy

That makes perfect sense to me. We're all born with psychic capacities, but most of us are bullied out of noticing them at an early age, some more brutally than others -- parents tend to get especially nasty when children hear their thoughts, realize they're lying, and are innocent enough to say so. Nonverbal autists usually don't come in for the same kind of bullying, not least because parents and teachers don't really think there's anyone in there, and most autists don't pick up on peer pressure anyway, so it's not surprising that many nonverbal autists still have the full set of abilities.