Print at home A-Z of Demands

Almost 3 years ago I shared an A-Z of Demands on Facebook highlighting some of the everyday demands which, in my experience with my PDA child, can trigger PDA demand avoidance and my understanding of why. Printed versions were initially available for people who wanted them but I've unfortunately been unable to provide a printed …

A note on holiday dreams and PDA

I thought I'd share some examples of how Miss M, Mr M and I navigated through Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) while on holiday recently and how we found our way to making some demands indirect and depersonalised enough for Miss M to cope with... First of all, some background: We went to Disneyland Paris which …

A-Z of PDA Support Strategies

Pathological Demand Avoidance is an autism spectrum profile and requires support strategies which minimise anxiety and facilitate the need for control through collaboration and negotiation and by being more flexible and less directive than other types of autism support strategies. In this A-Z series we share the tailored support strategies which help our child who …

A note on PDA and mobility

I wanted to write a bit about Little Miss M's needs around mobility. Mobility is the ability to move or be moved freely and easily, and there are times when Little Miss M is unable to walk and needs help to move from one point to another. We continued to use a pushchair for longer …

PDA True Colors (Pathological Demand Avoidance)

Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) is an autism spectrum profile. Children and adults with the PDA profile of autism are often misunderstood. I hope the information in this video will help change that.   For more information about PDA please visit the PDA Society website Please share far and wide and help #BeingUnderstood become the norm …

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Little Miss M, overcoming demand avoidance like the star she is! ⭐ We were at a safari park. We'd done all the walk-through bits and it was time to do the drive-through bit. She wanted to do it. She wanted to see her favourite animal on the safari, the giraffes. She wanted to see the …

A note on the barriers and impact of demand avoidance on my PDA child

A distinct feature of Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) is to resist and avoid the ordinary demands of life. This refers to the demand avoidance part of PDA and I think it's really important to recognise the barriers and impact this has on Little Miss M and other PDAers. The way demand avoidance presents in PDA …

Creating a PDA friendly lifestyle

I originally wrote this for Steph's Two Girls' 'Our PDA Story' series earlier this year. I thought it would be nice to add it to the blog roll and share again here. At age 6, and a few months before her PDA diagnosis, my daughter started refusing life as we knew it. Gradually, one by …

A note on difficult transitions

We went to a new play-park this week and when it was time to go home for dinner Little Miss M was unable to leave. I'm sure most (if not all) parents experience their children not wanting to leave somewhere from time to time. Parents of toddlers in particular might even encounter a 'battle of …

Our journey to PDA

I originally wrote this for Autism with lots of love and affection's #YourJourneyMyBlog series in 2017, before starting Notes on PDA. I thought it would be nice to finally add it to the blog roll and share again here as it was the first thing I ever wrote about Pathological Demand Avoidance and tells our story …