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PDA

NAS62388

I'd like to thank whoever it was who mentioned PDA in relation to my adult daughter, but I have no idea how to find threads in which I've commented or answered questions.  am I alone in finding the forum a bit difficult to navigate?  Anyway, if you're out there, telling me last year about PDA was incredibly helpful, my daughter immediately recognised herself in it.  We've managed to get her a diagnosis of ASD "with a Demand Avoidance profile", which his better than nothing.  It was a fight, but then everything with this illness seems to be a fight :(   has helped me interact with her differently, too. so it's a massive help.

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  • Past activity can be found by:

    Go to https://community.autism.org.uk/members/nas62388
    ^ this your member profile

    Look for 'Activity' in the broad blue bar
    Click 'Activity' and you should see all the threads you've posted on I think (?) [at least on the account you're logging in here with]

    I'll be quite interested to hear how things are going with your daughter.

    I recognise elements of PDA in myself and learning from others is both eye-opening and useful.

    I also think (strongly suspect?) my father has elements of it so I'm trying to learn (a bit trial and error) how to make communication between us easier (basically so that neither of us gets too hurt for too long).

     As you say/hint at, so much of communication feels a bit like a battleground.

    You've said she's quite 'huggy'? Is she reasonably good at 'bouncing back' from awkward (dare I say hurtful) miscommunications?

    I know in my family it's been a case of: bruise easily but bounce back and recover quite quickly (as long as one person gives the right sign of love/vulnerability that allows 'the wound to close' as it were)

  • in reply to calmerchameleon

    Also, must be being dim, can't see "activity" in the blue bar.... any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

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