The vicious sensory processing/environmental, filter/selective, attention/working memory cycle is so very challenging that we tend to find ourselves in a much more regular state of emotional hypervigilance, a state of alert that makes it hard to distinguish a real situation in need of attention from any other moment, leading us to either overreact to the smallest hint of error or become so overstimulated that we need to tune out and “reset” by physical stimming (motor distractions like tapping or bouncing, or mine, running my fingers back and forth over my cuticles), vocal stimming (talking or
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