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| | Zathras' Great Machine: Mental note. |
 | | The nature of telepaths, and the way they're treated in human society, has a lot of parallels to what it's like to be autistic in our society, and how our society often treats us. |
 | | In fact, there's even a "telepathic spectrum": telepaths are rated from P1 (very slightly telepathic, not much more than an unusually strong intuition) to P12 (telepathy so powerful that you have to learn how not to hear other people's thoughts, and you can even control other people's behavior in a limited way). |
 | | Telepaths, once they're identified as such, are required by law to either join the Psi Corps so they can be monitored and regulated, or to take special drugs, called "sleepers", that suppress their telepathy (and which also have some pretty harsh side effects... |
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