To start to make sense of this we have to step back from ‘autism studies’ and instead focus on research into Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS), hypermobility, and dysautonomia. Just as with Autistics, it’s been noted for a long time that hypermobile EDS and other forms of hypermobility tend to be accompanied by things like anxiety, dyspraxia, fibromyalgia and other pain issues, gut issues, sensory differences, impacts on proprioception, on interoception… If you are thinking “that list looks familiar!” well, yeah.