The Risk Factors for Autistic People Dying

Diving is in most cases a deceptively quiet event. Nobody's waving their arms up in the air and calling out for help because physiologically they're unable to do that. Over 50% of people with autism wander, which could be them bolting away from something they find aversive or bolting towards what they really want. And we assume that because they associate the water with alleviating a lot of their sensory needs,. So they recall that the water makes them feel calm and happy when they are under it.