Key points

Many autistic people experience the body as silent, overwhelming, or unreadable.

Interoception shapes emotion, empathy, and self-care, yet it's often altered in autistic individuals.

ACT can help autistic people accept their inner world and act meaningfully, even during discomfort.

Understanding behavior can mean listening beneath it to the quiet signals of the body.

There is a quiet language spoken inside us, a private vocabulary of heartbeats, breath, butterflies in the stomach, and the warmth of joy. Most people know this language instinctively. But for many neurodivergent individuals, such as those with autism, the body speaks in riddles, or shouts in chaos, or, worse, says nothing at all [1, 2].

This internal sense, the ability to feel what’s going on inside your own

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