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Neurodiversity - Autism, the Pathological Demand Avoidance profile and family life!
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A Lockdown, an ‘incident’ and news of the upcoming PDA Space Summit (opens the original)
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Hello and Oops, it appears I took summer off. It feels like summer started back in May for me - did I tell you how lucky I was to go to Florida to celebrate our eldest’s 21st and the end of her third year at college in the US?! Not long after that, she came home for a month of summer and we had a whirlwind that included catching up with family, having a trip into London with her sister (more on this another time), seeing Harry Styles and Take That, going to the theatre (Beetlejuice was fab) and
PDA... or not? (opens the original)
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I’m feeling guilty now, and I apologise profusely for the email headline. It’s just a trial, to see whether it encourages the other 50% of people who don’t usually open my emails to take a look….In case ‘PDA or not’ has made anyone panic, I can confirm that I still absolutely believe that PDA is real and that our younger daughter fits the PDA profile. A few years ago I published a post titled Is Pathological Demand Avoidance real? and I think it’s still relevant today.<div class="captioned-i
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