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Questioning the Pathological Part of PDA: A Talk With Dr. Deborah Budding

Posted on June 29, 2023 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

The thing about PDA or “Pathological Demand Avoidance” is that there are a lot of reasons why someone would resist doing something, and it’s often more complex than it appears on the surface.

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Adult Misdiagnosis: The Default Path to an Autistic Identity

Posted on October 14, 2022July 22, 2023 by Autistic Science Person

This post is about the hundreds and thousands of autistic people who are misdiagnosed everyday by psychiatrists, psychologists, and other professionals.

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thinkingautism thinkingautism.bsky.social @thinkingautism ·
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#AskingAutistics. Seriously: If most of your childhood and schooling was structured by non-autistic people, how much of that time did you spend bored to tears? And getting in trouble for "acting out" because you were SO bored? #Neurodiversity

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drstevenkapp Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp ·
27 Sep

Free for now study: “a high proportion of hyper-empathic experiences…empathic responses to be overwhelming, or even distressing. These different experiences of empathy contrast with societal expectations of empathy, which often result in additional labor for autistic people”

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thinkingautism thinkingautism.bsky.social @thinkingautism ·
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"Researchers are using dozens of studies of how screen time affects typically developing children to jump past the question of how it affects us [autistic people] and go straight into developing strategies for taking our screens away." By @UnstrangeMind:

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thinkingautism thinkingautism.bsky.social @thinkingautism ·
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Autistic kids can be hard on electronics, furniture—and more. There are often (not always, but often) approaches or adaptations that parents & caregivers can make to prevent or reduce incidents, and make things easier for everyone. Advice aplenty at TPGA:

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