5 Traits Of Pathological Demand Avoidance [YOU MISS!]

5 Traits Of Pathological Demand Avoidance YOU MISS!

Here are 5 MUST SEE traits of Pathological Demand Avoidance!

This condition is an atypical autism condition that is sometimes co-occurring with an autism diagnosis but can be independent.

Here are 5 traits that you must see.

1.Lability Of Mood
A person with PDA will have mood control issues and can be shown to change their mood moment to moment.

2.Comfortable in role play or pretend play
Because of the use of masking in social situations a person with PDA will be very comfortable in playing games of acting and pretended role play.

3.My have hyper moments and cry a lot
Due to mood and emotional control issues, a person of PDA may have hyper-active moments and similarly have moments of upset and crying.

4.May have selective mutism
A PDA person can sometimes display selective mutism in situations of social events or social environments.

5.Triggers may be hard to pin down
You may notice that a person with PDA can get triggered at random times, but you are not able to notice what the triggers are.

I would love to know your thoughts on this topic as lots of people ask me about PDA and I think a conversation needs to happen.

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LINKS:
PDA Society - Demand Avoidance of the PDA kind: https://youtu.be/CCsfKxyuH1I

Purple Ella - Demand Avoidance: https://youtu.be/aUeeyivGuW8

Pathological demand avoidance - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathological_demand_avoidance

Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) - https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/topics/diagnosis/pda