I could never understand why I resisted doing things, why I always had to talk myself into everything…the older I got the less able I was to talk myself around, I became even more aware of how demands made me feel, mentally and physically. When I began noticing signs of pda in my son who was awaiting autism assessment, I had my own lightbulb moment. I think pda is definitely a difficult concept to wrap your head around, unless you have experienced it yourself…
Correct; no one can understand it unless they experience it themselves. While that can be said for a lot of neurodiverse phenomena, I think it's most apt with PDA. It's so hard to describe.
I liken the DSM to a snapshot that captures a specific moment in time.
ODD does not describe a person uniquely, it describes a person in an environment. And how do you measure vindictiveness?
Neuroscience and the historically narrow and male-centered ways that research and medicine describe humanhood continue to evolve beyond the current DSM snapshot. Normalizing the concept of neurotypes will mean redefining categorizing by disorder. The future cant come soon enough!
Yes, PDA is real! I know, because I live it, and since my diagnosis with autism it's become way more apparent. I also think that prolonged PDA can lead to burnout, which is what I'm going through.
I'm glad to have found another blog which talks about autism!
I could never understand why I resisted doing things, why I always had to talk myself into everything…the older I got the less able I was to talk myself around, I became even more aware of how demands made me feel, mentally and physically. When I began noticing signs of pda in my son who was awaiting autism assessment, I had my own lightbulb moment. I think pda is definitely a difficult concept to wrap your head around, unless you have experienced it yourself…
Correct; no one can understand it unless they experience it themselves. While that can be said for a lot of neurodiverse phenomena, I think it's most apt with PDA. It's so hard to describe.
I liken the DSM to a snapshot that captures a specific moment in time.
ODD does not describe a person uniquely, it describes a person in an environment. And how do you measure vindictiveness?
Neuroscience and the historically narrow and male-centered ways that research and medicine describe humanhood continue to evolve beyond the current DSM snapshot. Normalizing the concept of neurotypes will mean redefining categorizing by disorder. The future cant come soon enough!
That's a great question! And I've never been convinced by the idea of ODD...
Yes, PDA is real! I know, because I live it, and since my diagnosis with autism it's become way more apparent. I also think that prolonged PDA can lead to burnout, which is what I'm going through.
I'm glad to have found another blog which talks about autism!