Observing how my 11 years old half-verbal (he can speak but it is not his natural way of expressing himself) autistic boy develops, I feel most of his anxiety and low self-esteem comes from not being able to predict situations. From very early on I noticed that a single counter example could have him invalidate a belief he had acquired over many instances. As he is growing up and developing secondary emotions this problems seems to come back each time he is building a new vision of the world that comes along with this new emotion (e.g. shame, guilt, confidence, delusion). As if all of sudden many things would again be totally unpredictable for him.
Has anyone experienced something along these lines? Is it something typical of autistic people?