A concept for autism:

Ideally, individuals with autism have some coping and calming strategies in their repertoire of skills to access with support during their most anxious times. These may include rocking in a rocking chair, listening to music in headphones, deep breathing, watching a preferred video clip, brief periods of vigorous exercise, or acccessing a favorite activity or material.

Ensure that the individual has ample access to these calming activities.

They may be scheduled regularly across the day in the initial weeks of change, then, if appropriate, caregivers may introduce a self-mgmt plan that helps individals track their anxious responses and identify when the calming strategies are needed.

For people with ADHD, a similar idea is conscious Stimming, i.e. using a pre-planned stimming behavior. Another general one is HALT (Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired).

• Weak central coherence en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_central_coherence_theory
• Intense-world theory (opposite of psychopathy, but similar outward results)
  • it seems sometimes like the world is such an intense thing for me that what I do all the time is hide from that intensity, and I'm very good at hiding

Literal thinking

Measures

• Calming & Coping routine

Evolution

Q: Network of human bands in Horn of Africa drive brain evolution? Why emigrators not evolve that much, but have to be replaced by successive waves from Horn of Africa?

Science quality assurance

See errorstatistics.com/2017/10/18/deconstructing-a-world-beyond-p-values/

See chapter 15 in Statistical Rethinking. See also the endnotes of the book. See box on page 51.