Melissa Neff
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first heard Jun 2017
last heard Dec 2022
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I think that I heard somewhere and it may have been you that mentioned in another conversation of PDA being m mistaken maybe for an attachment issue.
where um the child goes into these rages and doesn't want to brush their teeth because they don't want to do it for the parent.
But my experience has actually been that these kids are
Non neurotypical.
And they are wired.
in an autistic way, which means that they are more sensory sensitive than a neurotypical person.
And so they're gonna be more easily pushed into fight, flight, or freeze.
than the typical person, um, who's not neurodiverse.
But beyond that
What I have seen with parents of kids with PDA is that they have tried everything.
And these are parents that walk on eggshells around their kids and tr and try to change the entire environment to make
things more comfortable for their child and often have very strong connections to to the extent that they can with a child that doesn't have
maybe quite as much social communicative depth.
in in their identity.
So so I I don't see it as an attachment issue.
I think it can easily get mis mistaken as
oppositional defiant disorder and I've had several therapists ask me that question where I've diagnosed a kid with PDA and sent them on to a local therapist and and the therapist says, Okay, what what do I d do with this?
And I send them some resources and you know, of which there are
a lot of resources, but there's not enough resources.
And so I think that's a piece that that this PDA community, which mostly exists in the UK.
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