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All the other tentacles of the psychopseudosciences have a much broader range of client type, but the behavioral psychopseudoscience tends to only focus on the dim witted, handi-incapable range of the population. I believe behaviorism is wasted in psychopseudoscience, behaviorism properly executed is the proto-science, the so called 'phenomenological reduction'.

For all things in this universe appear to have some sort of interaction potential. In the strictest technical sense any physical interaction between discreet parts of an environment can be classified as a behavior. In the social sense, behavior is a person directing stimuli towards something or someone else, and the something and someone reciprocating that stimuli in some way.

Behavior is basically a mental box that we arbitrarily define, and when the universe organizes itself in a specific way that fits in that mental box, a light goes off in our brain that says, 'hey behavior happened'. In that sense, behavior is like a car crossing a timing light, once the car crosses the line, it counts a lap. It counts as a 'driving a lap behavior' as long as it satisfies several arbitrary criteria.

Therefore, behavior is essentially a way to create a scientific experiment, you define the behavior you are trying to measure. First you have to know what you're trying to measure, second you have to know how to affect that measurement by controlling the variables.

Fixing an engine is using behavioral strategies. Say an engine is misfiring at high rpm, that is the behavior. You understand that because how engines work, and how they ought to behave, that typically it's a spark issue. So you change the variables, you change the spark plugs, and the behavior changes. Simple, straight forward.

Which brings me back to the title of the post, I guess behavior psychopseudoscientists pick autists and simple-folk because there are less confounding variables to affect their experiments.