The PDA Paradox: The Highs and Lows of My Life on a Little-Known Part of the Autism Spectrum

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This contradicts frequent terminology within the neurodiversity movement of label first language (autistic person). I haven’t heard Alison speak before but I am very much looking forward to her presentation as she has vast and valuable experience, insight and advice on supporting autistics. When the younger sister ran to her mom asking to curl her own hair, her mom was able to explain that curling irons don’t really work on dirty hair. His sounds are beginning to take on more meaning, as I do the anthropological work of deciphering his internal state and experience of the world, as an outsider. I understood that violence was not a part of this Autistic individual’s inherent being, rather his meltdown was likely in response to the context and triggers of a culture that doesn’t accommodate social disability in a way that mitigates this reaction.

So many professionals get it wrong recently I have been told that my 4yo is not autistic because he chooses to deliberately behave as he does.Studying someone’s displayed behaviours and characteristics doesn’t give you a great insight as to what the person is feeling or experiencing on the inside. Can seek out accountability” The bottom half has an illustration of a child in yellows and oranges to the right, and beside him on the left it reads “PDA Child”, below that in list format says “Not at capacity for maturity. I do see some relation between RSD and PDA; where RSDers tend to turn against themselves, and PDAers turn against the world. These people are very independent, often misunderstood, and have extremely variable profiles of functioning. If a branch member fails to comply with the above they may be asked to leave the branch and will no longer be able to attend activities.

Once he stopped being at school (the beginning of the second week of January term starting) the violence completely stopped. Thompson says in his YouTube video, “Anxiety Presents in Multiple Ways,” that many class clowns like he used to be as a middle-schooler often resort to hiding behind a flamboyant persona as a coping mechanism for anxiety.I can embody non-violence in my daily facial expressions, words, tone, and movements, no matter how hard this feels. This pattern has been observed since early childhood and did not emerge in the context of a specific stressful event. The only way to be sure of avoiding this doubt is to not diagnose DAP and use recognised labels from the diagnostic manuals, as argued by Green et al (2018a).