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Manisha Ladd

Manisha Ladd

Autism advocate and mother of Akhil, a non-speaking autistic college student featured on The Telepathy Tapes podcast and its Talk Tracks companion series.

Sep 10, 2026

12:35
And then tell me what happened next because obviously some sort of telepathy happened.
12:39
Yeah.
12:39
See, whenever anybody walks into our center, it's very pure RPM-based.
12:45
We never... say telepathic or anything or anything we know that if a child is spelling we know when they are reading our mind and when they are not reading how can you tell okay so if i read something and the answer i have in my mind the child starts answering that then we completely know Or sometimes they give thoughts that I connect from this quote to that.
13:13
Some of the thoughts which they type, which is not in our mind.
13:16
So it happens very naturally.
13:18
So like your example of the bike is a perfect example.

9 MINS LATER

22:40
The fear goes away.
28:12
Thank you for that.
28:13
Yeah, other times I also feel that mothers and the caregivers who are doing the communication need a lot of support and we don't have that support.
28:22
So I felt so isolated and I just stopped going to anybody and say, I cannot talk.
28:30
I cannot even discuss these things with you because you're not going to understand me.
28:34
I cannot even take all these thoughts and these comments or even my emotional status to a doctor because I'm worried the doctor might prescribe something to me and say that, oh, you are too deeply involved.
28:45
Or I'm tired of hearing from the parents, oh, you are too dedicated and you are different and you are too positive, you are too positive for me.
28:52
So giving up is a very easy option.

15 MINS LATER

43:26
It really is one of the hardest questions to even receive.

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