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8 Things I Do to Live Well as an Autistic PDAer
I’m Autistic with a PDA profile. I was born with an overactive threat response that gets easily triggered, especially when I’m faced with...
Mar 24, 2024
6 min read
7 Powerful Mindset Shifts for Educators of PDA students
by Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman PDA stands for Pathological Demand Avoidance or Pervasive Drive for Autonomy, a little-known profile of...
Mar 14, 2024
6 min read
Internalized v Externalized PDA
by Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman That's funny... you don't look PDA! My son & I are both Autistic with a PDA profile. PDA =Pervasive...
Feb 16, 2024
2 min read
How do internalized PDA'ers assert control or "equalize"?
by Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman I am what is known in the PDA community as an internalized PDAer. In this post, I explain what that...
Feb 16, 2024
5 min read
FAQs on PDA by a PDAer
by Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman What is PDA? PDA stands for Pathological Demand Avoidance, or Pervasive Drive for Autonomy. The latter...
Feb 15, 2024
9 min read
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