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Autistic Ang's avatar

I feel so grateful I found your Substack. I've recently started looking into PDA but wanted a more in-depth explanation of it. Also, thank you for the Julia and Riko references, I will be checking those out. Thank you for writing this.

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Steph Curtis's avatar

Ah, thanks for your comment - it always makes me happy to know I'm helping!

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Patti Podnar's avatar

Thanks, Steph. This is a great summary. I've followed your writing since I first stumbled across PDA and realized it fit my son perfectly (even though it's not recognized as an autism profile in the US). I'm glad to see you here.

I just started on Substack a few days ago myself. I plan to cover a number of topics, but PDA will always be on tap. I have an article on "Things I want my PDA son to accept on faith as he nears adulthood" that I'm going to be moving over from another site soon. But this article about PDA was one of my first posts here:

https://pattipodnar.substack.com/p/discovering-pathological-demand-avoidance

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