Pathological demand avoidance (explained by ducks) | Diploma Duck

How can I support my PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance) child or teen to stay regulated? 🧐 Experiment with the 4 S’s: 👉Screens 👉Safe Nervous System (yours) 👉Special Interest 👉Sensory intense experience, dopamine or novelty This is the framework I use to think through unsctructured time with my PDA son and has helped 100s of parents think through everything from long weekends with their PDA child to beginning #unschooling after school refusal. I hope it serves you ❤️ . . . #pathologicaldema

If your PDA child is dysregulated, anxious, or overwhelmed, this is what you can to do. 😯 Follow for more realistic tools to help your PDA child, and you, move out of burnout, and finally thrive! | At Peace Parents

If you have an outgoing and social-oriented PDA child or teen, you’ve likely experienced one or more of these uncomfortable situations... Your child repeatedly: 👉schedules a playdate and then counts down the seconds until it starts 👉obsesses over when a friend will come home or respond to a text 👉fixates on when the neighbors or their friends will come home with the hopes of playing with them This can feel so, so hard as a parent. 👉 We don’t want the neighbors to think we are weird 👉 We don

So what is PDA? 👇👇 Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) was a term first penned in the 1980’s by Professor Elizabeth Newson. She began investigating a complex group of children who were similar to each other but confusing to professionals in that the children shared some common challenges with autistic children yet were not so typical in their presentation. However, in studying these individuals she began to notice some similarities that all of the children shared – the central feature being ‘a

What does Pathological Demand Avoidance look like in adults? My unsatisfying answer here😉☝️ Want to work with me and a community of other understanding parents to support your PDA child and move your family forward? 🩷 Not sure if your child is PDA? Our free 6-minute survey can help you figure it out. Comment “PDAQBeta” and we’ll send you the link. xoxo, Casey | At Peace Parents