![]() My experience isn’t universal though and I would love to hear what you guys think, especially those of you who relate to the PDA profile.Ī quick note that people with trauma backgrounds often need to use "activation" or "activated" in place of the understandably sometimes problematic term arousal. I displayed some PDA symptoms when I was younger and they went away once I started healing from my traumatic upbringing and started learning to recognize and accommodate my needs, I don’t feel like it was something I was born with. Autistic people are constantly punished for being unable to do things that are overwhelming or for being unable to do things because of executive dysfunction, and it makes sense that after enough cycles of being forced to do something that triggers sensory overload or being forced into a high adrenaline state to complete a task through executive dysfunction that eventually demands as a whole would become triggering because you anticipate subconsciously that your needs aren’t going to be considered and you’re going to be forced into a horrible situation. To me, “demands trigger fight/flight” doesn’t immediately stand out as some separate condition or “autism profile” as much as it just seems like a trauma response. I’ve been hearing a lot about “pathological demand avoidance” lately and I’m not a psychologist but psychologists brought us ABA so I’m wary of this kinda stuff to be honest. As blogger Autistic Hoya puts it: I don't "have" autism, my dog is not named Autism. We also use identity-first language ("autistic people" not "people with autism") as identity-first language is generally the preference of the autistic self-advocate community. We do not allow surveys aimed solely at parents and caregivers of autistic people, as this subreddit is aimed at autistic people ourselves (and those questioning if they themselves are autistic), not our neurotypical family members and caregivers. ![]() Please message the mods first if you have a research or survey request for participants, and we will let you know if we think it is appropriate to post here. We have just established a new rule about research and survey requests. ![]() Its creation was inspired by the following twitter thread, which caused countless 'Aha!' moments for undiagnosed autistic adults: This subreddit is for #actuallyAutistic folks to talk about what it feels like to be autistic. So many autistic adults go undiagnosed their whole lives, and a large part of the reason why is that the diagnostic criteria are written in clinical, dehumanizing terms. ![]()
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