I'm hugely effected by "the presence of a person that radiates safety and warm feelings". I seem retarded, clumsy and 'can't do anything right' in oppressive punitive authoritarian conditions. Teachers say "are we talking about the same person?"Yeah... I don't know. My guess would be it's the same thing on a different scale. Autistic kids sometimes respond very nicely to scaffolded somatic therapy -- basically slowly doing increasingly difficult expressive exercises in the presence of a person that radiates safety and warm feelings.