Is Autism Awesometism?

In this episode of Where's the Honey?, Rebecca shares her personal experiences as the grandmother of a child on the autism spectrum and offers a spiritual perspective on what these extraordinary children may be teaching all of us.

Rather than seeing autism only through the lens of difficulty, Rebecca explores the possibility that these souls are expanding our understanding of intelligence, communication, compassion, freedom, and what it truly means to be human.

Through heartfelt stories, practical examples, and hopeful insights, she asks an important question:

What if the honey isn't found by trying to make people fit our expectations—but by allowing them to show us a bigger picture?

This episode explores topics such as:

• Looking beyond labels
• The hidden strengths within autism
• Why freedom and understanding matter
• Learning to choose connection over control
• Discovering the honey in life's biggest challenges

This episode reflects Rebecca's personal spiritual perspective and experiences. Whether or not you share those beliefs, her hope is that you'll come away with a deeper appreciation for the uniqueness, value, and potential within every person.

Because there is honey in everyone.

Stay sweet.

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Transcript

Is Autism Awesometism?

Rebecca 0:11

I want to share some thoughts on autism because it's definitely being seen more, but it's also such a mixed bag. But before I do, I want to thank everyone who emailed in from the last episode. I tried something new, something different. At the end of the episode, I offered a few free gifts for the first and fifth, I think it was, who emailed just to say hi or whatever. So the gifts have gone out. It's it was really fun. I want to do it again. As a matter of fact, I'll offer a little bit more at the end of this episode. My daughter helps me with this podcast now, and we look for honey reminder gifts that we can send just to give you something that reminds you to just look for the honey, especially when you're on a topic that you just don't like. So yeah, I love to send out gifts. She loves making gifts and putting gifts together. She's really good at it, so we hope they're helpful.

Why Autism Feels More Visible

Rebecca 1:05

So on the topic of autism, I can speak from experience because one of my grandsons is on the spectrum, as they say, because there are a lot of, I guess, degrees of autism. It looks different ways, and I'm sure it's been around a lot longer, maybe forever. We just put a label on it because it's become more common. It's no accident that this is part of the big expansion that we're going through over these current years. I mean, we all see it, and I'll do an episode on it soon, on how there's so much happening and being discovered and being uncovered. We can say it's a weird world right now. And that's a good thing. There's honey in that, there's so much honey in that. But just on the topic of autism, I really believe that before we come into a life experience as a soul, we have some ideas about why we want to come in, how we're serving the whole, how we're expanding our own selves, our own soul... and because everything's connected, the 'whole of existence'. I believe that we make some decisions, we set parameters about some things that we want to connect with in this life: personality traits, body size, gender, family, geographic location, certain things like that. Everything else is just how we create. In other words, while we're here with those certain parameters, and maybe some goal, some things that we're definitely going to meet up with, everything in between is our own creative journey. I don't believe that it's written in stone, that everything is planned out. I believe that we sort of figure it out as we go. We figure it out even better if we stop figuring it out and we listen to our intuition, to our guidance, to life itself.

Freedom First And Meltdown Lessons

Rebecca 3:10

So, in that, some have chosen what we call autism for no other reason than it's a really good idea. Because what I see in this is, during this time where things are changing quickly and boldly, we have souls coming in who are bucking the current of the standards, of the rules. We have so many rules and laws, and for the most part, those individuals are having none of it. So, speaking from personal experience, I can tell you for sure there is so much good stuff in this, but there's also a lot of difficulty in it. My grandson, for example, when he was younger, it was a real feat to get him from the vehicle into the house. That's something we normally don't even think about. We just get our kids, we get out of the vehicle and we head into the house. Maybe they want to play in a puddle on the way , no big deal. But with him, depending on the moment, it could be a what people call a nightmare. So, what we quickly discovered is that he lives in a very happy place. He's very intelligent, he also sees what he sees, he's hyper-focused, sometimes not in this world. He sees what lights up for him, and when you try to take it away from him or do it differently, his whole world would come crashing down around him, in his eyes. So my daughter and I learned that instead of saying, "You can't have that.", we would say, "Look at this . Look at this too." And he would choose the other thing. So as long as he retained his freedom, he was fine. If we say "This is how you have to behave.", he can't relate. I'll give you an example there. Let's say we're in Walmart, because this happened multiple times when he was younger. He's nine now. He would want a toy. You know, we can't be buying a big toy every time we go to a store. So we would say, "No, you can't have that today.", and he would just melt down. Some family members thought the right thing to do would be to pick him up, put him over your shoulder and carry him, screaming and crying, out of the store, or to yell at him, or to maybe smack him or whatever. And that never made sense to us. What made sense was, because he can understand, he's smart, to say to him, "Is that getting you what you want?" We would say, "Look at my nose (while pointing to our nose). We can't understand what you're saying because you're crying. So if you want us to understand what you're saying, you'll have to stop crying. No rush. We we want to hear what you have to say. So , use words, tell us what you want, what you're feeling right now, and then listen to us..." not tell him why he can't have it, but explain in a logical, heartfelt way, quickly, why that wasn't going to be a thing today. And so when he saw that we were being genuine, that we had a good reason, even though he still didn't like it, he understood it. So even if he would start to pout and kinda drag himself along , he'd be coming with us. He wasn't screaming and crying and throwing a fit, but he would just be all limp and whatever, and I'd whisper to him, "You know, that's still not getting you what you want." Meltdowns became rare .

Food Sensory Limits And A Happy Body

Rebecca 6:45

He has come so far over these years. Much better. Although, he stiil eats about a handful of foods, literally. He just is repulsed by most food. The smell, the texture, the look of it. And we've tried many approaches there. It's caused us, because we like to eat organic food and things like that, it's caused us to really question the 'why', Like, he loves pizza and French fries, and only certain pizza, only certain French fries. And, you know, we've been taught to say that's not a good thing. But maybe these souls are coming in and saying, "Well, actually, the body is a very well-designed machine. It'll take what it wants as long as I stay in my happy place. It'll take what it needs and wants and discard the rest." Because that's what the other side has taught us over the years. They've told us "We would much rather see someone in a really happy place drink polluted water than someone in a really unhappy place drink purified water. Because when you're in a happy state, your body's working very well, and it will filter that water for you. It'll take what it needs and it'll discard the rest. But if you're in a very unhappy place, it doesn't matter what you put in your body, it's not going to work out well. Because your body won't function as well. It will t alk to you in symptoms to let you know this is not a good idea, that you're miserable or unhappy ." So it kind of makes sense to me that they're sort of tricking our logic. And at the same time, they have, sometimes, no filters. I was raised, you don't tell somebody they're fat, you don't tell somebody that that scar looks terrible on their face, but just like young kids, for the most part, before they've been conditioned out of it, they'll just curiously say, "Why is that scar on your face?" They don't mean anything by it in a hurtful way, but they also don't filter it. And again, this is just here and there.

Rebecca 9:03

And, most or all also have what we might call superpowers. When my grandson was not even two years old, could barely talk, we discovered he could read. Not only could he read and put the alphabet letters in order and the whole thing, he read very complicated material.

Savants, Telepathy Tapes, New Evidence

Rebecca 9:20

I'm not bragging. What I'm doing is saying, look what they're showing us. How is that even possible? With what our logic has told us through the years and what science has told us through the years, that's not a thing. That can't happen, yet here we are. And if any of you have listened to the podcast The Telepathy Tapes, you're gonna learn a whole lot more about that. It's amazing the research that they're doing there. If you do want to listen, though, start from the very first episode, or you'll kind of be off track with it. What they have been doing is discovering that savants, for the most part, non-speaking people, who are assisted to learn how to type on a little machine have a lot to say. We're learning and discovering that they are extremely intelligent. Where doctors said the lights are on, but nobody's home. This research is showing the lights are on and somebody's definitely home, and they're pretty darn amazing because some of them know multiple languages. They communicate with each other telepathically. That's why the podcast is called The Telepathy Tapes. And so it's being studied so that we know this this is really what's happening. We are learning to think outside of a box that has been becoming more transparent over time.

Rebecca 10:44

We're even wondering now, are there aliens? Are we going to see the files? Are there really aliens? Will they visit at some point? Or have they already? Good, we should think about these things. We should wonder how does a two-year-old know how to not just read, but read better than most adults? And not only read complicated material, but retain the information. He just seems to know things that we don't understand how he gained the knowledge of. He's like a little walking book of knowledge. How fun is that? And he's not the only one. There are so many showing us what's possible. How do some kids know how to do math better than most adults? How do people who have never spoken know so much? And their parents are finding out that they're full of love and compassion and understanding and wisdom and it's just miraculous. But it's not at the same time because we're we're learning that this is just reality. They're showing us that we we can live with each other without being tough and rough and set in our ways of how other people should be. We can accept differences. Everyone has value, even the people you think are just rotten or no good or handicapped in various ways, or whatever it might be, whatever your opinions are about that, they're showing us that there is absolutely honey in everybody and everything. So they're helping us learn, they're helping us question, they're causing us to question personal power. Are we really creating everything because of our thoughts and because we are individually powerful, or is life happening to us? Do we have no power? They're teaching us that instead of beating or berating people into our way of thinking or our idea about how something should be done or said or whatever, we can shift our perspective.

Respect, Differences, And Personal Power

Rebecca 13:05

We can learn to see things through the eyes of source, through the eyes of another individual.

Rebecca 13:29

So, what about the not fun parts? There's a family nearby whose son is very autistic, and I've watched through the years as there were times in the dead of winter where he would be outside sitting in the snow in his underwear, and you could see the look of defeat on their face. "We know it's cold, we know he's in his underwear. Please don't judge us." My daughter said to me when her son was young, she said, "Mom, sometimes we just have to choose our battles." And she was so definitely right, she's a great mom. Sooo right, because what happened in that moment is we were at a fair outside, and my grandson , in his stroller, was reaching down and picking up little rocks and putting them in his bottle of water. I looked down and I said, "Oh, don't put the rocks in there." And she said, "Mom, sometimes you just have to choose your battles." And I got what she meant. It's entertaining him. He wants to do it, he likes to do it. Of course, we're not gonna let him drink the water, but it's only a bottle of water.

Rebecca 14:43

And so I've watched that nearby family stand outside while their son sits, so many times, in the backseat of the car for hours. He's like most, he's changed a lot over the years. And what we're finding too with the research in The Telepathy Tapes is that once we can communicate with the nonverbal ones, that a whole new relationship forms. We don't have what people call the 'behaviors' and things like that because of the conflicts. I know a woman who for years assisted kids in elementary school who needed a one-on-one person with them. And she said, "You know, you're right, when we pushed against them, it doesn't work out. But when I can see what they want and pay attention to them and work it out with them, it works out."

Choosing Battles In Hard Moments

Rebecca 15:40

So even though, like I said, there's a whole lot of difficulty, especially in younger years, and especially if parents don't get this and do the old-fashioned 'beat them into submission or yell them and berate them into into submission thing', it gets harder and harder and harder. So why not step back from it and look at it from a broader perspective to see what good is there? Because when we do that, we see less trouble, less trouble just occurs, solutions happen, behaviors change. Because, like I said, I believe they're here to tell us "Think differently, please, look outside yourself differently, please." Because as we, as a people here, are becoming more aware and more say... spiritually connected, we have a whole lot more happening to assist us with that and leading us and guiding us with that. So that's how I see the honey in autism.

Email Challenge, Giveaway, Goodbye

Rebecca 16:54

As far as the gifts go, like I said, these are fun reminders, a nice gift that you can put somewhere to nudge you to remember to look for the honey. We have all kinds of different things. So, what I want to do this time is, email me one example of where you see no honey. You can be brief. "I see no honey in divorce." "I see no honey in my child joining the military." This is the very beginning of August 2026, so this will go out in the next day or two. All the emails that come in over the next two-week s, I'll put the names in a hat, and I'll let my grandsons pick five people who we'll email for your mailing address, and we will mail you a gift from Where's the Honey? Podcast. Rebecca @Honey in Everything .com. Until next time, stay sweet.