As someone who has spent a great deal of time studying my ancestors and how they lived their days, their mannerisms and preferences, my current family’s mannerisms and preferences, and then thousands of pages written by colonized people about uncolonized people, this is the exact conclusion I came to as well.
The outside world is constantly “stimming” for you. Take that away and you need to fill the gap
you are supposed to be chewing on a root all fing day
you are supposed to have coveted items for daily use that are passed down or that you keep for decades
you need an encyclopedic knowledge of minutia, plant leaves, root shapes, the difference between the sound of a fly’s wings and a biting fly’s wings
you should be sensitive enough to changes in your environment that you can tell just on instinct, when a predator has walked over your trail two days ago, or when there is lightning in the air from 300 miles away
your trusted food flavors are solidified as a toddler and are VERY hard to change. These have been determined safe by very dangerous trial and error and shouldn’t be tested much at all
you should be simultaneously impervious to the elements and very sensitive to minor fluctuations in them
friendships are unbreakable, until they aren’t, and then they are broken forever
you need to be able to spend hours on a hyper-focus, and your instincts and feelings should lead you to which one you need to be doing right now
As someone who has spent a great deal of time studying my ancestors and how they lived their days, their mannerisms and preferences, my current family’s mannerisms and preferences, and then thousands of pages written by colonized people about uncolonized people, this is the exact conclusion I came to as well.
I mean, just off the top of my head.