This video really resonated with me for my little one with ASD. Heard of PDA yesterday. Thank you so so much!!
@cierraallen928810 ай бұрын
Unfortunately they do not recognize PDA in the U.S. I told the man who did our Autism testing just because it is not recognized does not mean it is not here!
@normasouza10869 ай бұрын
It’s now starting to be recognized.
@karaleighgarrison9 ай бұрын
My son was diagnosed with PDA in Utah a couple years ago. It’s coming, thankfully!
@DanJHugs6 ай бұрын
It’s still not fully recognised or understood here in the UK either.
@chelseamaymaguire49753 жыл бұрын
I related to so so much of this. So informative. The sorry thing blew my mind.. i find the same thing with my little boy.
@missdempster268 ай бұрын
I found this video so informative! Thankyou so much for creating this
@dawnroot42939 ай бұрын
WOW...i was right....my soooo has PDA. Im in Canada and I have mentioned it to his doctors and teachers and they looked at me like im crazy :( Im a single mom with no real support and he's 14 with 6 different diagnoses with autism being on. Do you ever come to Canada?! #pleasehelp
@MelissaThompson4328 ай бұрын
If you show them the video will they pay attention and take you seriously? I'm fortunate enough to have found a primary that accepts my self-diagnosis. On the other hand, there are no adult ASD resources within several hours' drive of me. 😕🤷
@gailhandley49742 жыл бұрын
My 13 year old daughter will not get a wash or wash or hair or brush her teeth , I’m at my wits end and don’t know what to do 😭 xx
@gobbled123 Жыл бұрын
One thing that helped us is doing numbered tasks. Like a check list which they can do on their own. It gives them a chance to take control and as long as they do all of them it is OK how they do it.
@MelissaThompson4328 ай бұрын
Ask her why. She may be overwhelmed. She may be trying to distance herself from other people. She may resent being supervised (this is a real thing, it's not misbehavior.) I reached an age, and I'm pretty sure it was younger than 13, where I told my mother she treated me like a child and she shouldn't because I could handle things on my own, and to my excellent good fortune, I was blessed with a mother who said, "ok, do it then" and stopped checking up on me. I'm sure I didn't brush my teeth as often as she preferred, but they didn't fall out; I didn't even have cavities. If your child is a PDA'er, they want to be agreeable and will work very hard at it if they're treated like very young, inexperienced adults with self-agency, depending on their limits. They also want to determine what their limits are, so you may have to claim supervisory veto power. If doing a task becomes an obligation rather than a fact of life, it causes a sort of motivation paralysis. We want to do the thing; we just...can't. It's not physical paralysis, but it is paralysis of a very real kind. So, to go back to what I said at the start, ask her. Ask her for her perspective and be interested in whatever she has to say. If it doesn't make sense, keep trying. One other thing that may be a factor: PDA'ers are very high masking, and I recently learned that this may cause them to internalize meltdowns because they feel they don't have a safe place to lose control. In my case, the reason for this would have been that I hate upsetting anyone. I have a history of shutdowns, but every once in awhile flying off the handle can be cathartic. If your child is squeezing back meltdowns, acting out against her body may be a response to that. She may not stop having meltdowns entirely, that's not the point. The point is, whether she's squelching them when she feels the need for them during the times in between. That builds up after awhile and it has to go somewhere.
@ahavatrivedi4629 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!! ❤
@paulmead54344 жыл бұрын
Well done indeed Nicola xxx
@Model_mayhem_mother9 ай бұрын
What happens when your a PDA auDHD mum with 3 PDA auDHD kids..this Circus 🎪 ringmaster left town the 🐒🐒🐒🐒🐒 opened the cages and now we have problems and the ringmaster is there out back 🚬 and ducking about with the trapeze artist!
@sharonmorris1299 Жыл бұрын
Major problem with this video, many people with PDA enjoy novelty and hate being prepped beforehand.
@SDesi7069 ай бұрын
I think her point was to prep them when they are calm and there are no demands on them to perform an action straight away.
@dawnroot42939 ай бұрын
very true...depends on the person and situation I think...with my boy its hit or miss depending on the situation...the more i prep him sometimes it makes his anxiety waaaay worse...but other times if i dont...i get the same reaction :/ :)
@hildegallemaert51325 ай бұрын
Yes, this is just ass
@theautisticpage5 ай бұрын
As we have ADHD that can be true. As we are autistic we may also want Tom's of pre planning. I have done and seen others do both.