What bothers me so much about this area in practice is that it’s mostly throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. The practice is greatly hindered by the research, which, when it comes to autism, seems to keep repeating the same mistake of studying tiny, statistically meaningless samples of little boys with no control group, and measuring success by whether they become more convenient for their parents. I don’t think my collection of demographics has actually been studied, much less in the quality of life metrics that would actually be important to me, which checks out, because I’ve had a really hard time with meds.