PDA.I.M

As a child, I was my own parent. I had parents, but they said I parented myself.

Straight to extreme
challenges and a complete shutdown in my teen years.

My parents were more permissive, I
made my own demands. For example, I gave myself demands to thrive at school, to get the
best job possible, to be best at my job.

I recently found out I had PDA as well (not only autism,
DCD and ADHD that I got diagnosed with in my late 30s, early 40s).

I needed to research
different parental approaches because my autistic daughter was hard to handle.

So I ran into Tony Attwood an Michelle Garnett webinars on difficult-to-handle-children, on something called
PDA.

I was flabbergasted!

That is exactly what my daughter has.

The dr. Jekyll / mr. Hyde
trait, an explosion of Hulk-alike strength and anxiety levels through the roof.

She could give
herself demands and have a complete meltdown not seeing them through.

As do I, as have I – since early childhood.

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When I recently started to give lectures on PDA, one of the participants asked me if PDA is possible in adulthood.

I said: “But, of course!

Do I know anybody?

“For sure but at the moment uncertain… I might know, just not sure they are PDA, jet.”

And then my friend Meta, professional SEN teacher and miltitasking milti knowledge persona perfecta, a neurodivergent person, also having three neurodivergent children as do
I, said: “Of course you do, my dear, YOURSELF!”

Here we go!

PDA I aM.

Mičkumačku…

P. S.

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