So here are five traits of pathological demand avoidance.
You probably have missed.
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Okay guys.
We are talking about pathological demand, avoidance or PDA, which
are referred to you from now on.
Now, PDA is something that impacts people who are on the autism spectrum
and it is how you basically demand avoid.
So when, when someone is asking a demand on you, you avoid it.
You, you curve it, you go away from it.
Now I've done a couple of videos on demand avoidance before and
pathological demand avoidance.
But I feel like there's five things that really stick out to people who have PDA.
That would typically be ignored.
So people wouldn't even know that they had PDA.
Now this may all be confusing.
We're going to bring it down right now in five simple steps.
So the first one is lability of mood.
Now the person with a PDA will have mood control issues and can be shown
to change their mood from moment to moment, like one moment they may be
really happy and super, super sad.
And then the other minute they be really angry, but then really, really happy
it just moment to moment to moment.
This is because of the way that pathological demand avoidance comes
out in the person when the person is having demands put on them and
especially lots of demands as well.
If the person is on the autism spectrum and it could be a sensory overload
mixing with PDA, and this is the kind of result that you actually get.
So it's worth noting that a if somones mood is changing up and up and down.
This may be a characteristic or trait of pathological demand avoidance that you
probably wouldn't really thought about.
Comfortable in role play and pretend play.
Now, autistic people have issues with, um, understanding social conventions,
but because of the use of masking in social situations, looked done a whole
video masking, which I'll try and leave a link for somewhere in accounts.
A person with PDA will be very comfortable in playing games where
they have to pretend to be somebody else like Dungeons and dragons.
For instance, I'm a huge fan of playing that game, or if they are playing games
where they want to become somebody else.
So acting for instance, this is.
Somewhat of a big strength within PDA on someone with
pathological demand avoidance.
And so it's something to look out for.
And if you combine this with, you know, the liability of mood, then you're pretty
sure that this person probably has PDA of palate, ongoing neurological conditions.
So number three is that the person may have hyper moments and cry a lot.
So due to the mood and emotional control issues, the person with PDA.
Uh, may have hyperactivity moments where they seem really hyperactive.
And similarly they'll have moments of really deep, dark crying depression.
And these are two extremes of that mood liability, but these are more kind of
like hyperactive versus really, really depressed, um, that can fluctuate in swing
up and down, which is typically not seen in people of neuro-typical sense because
they just, uh, Typically like one type of mood and then maybe they'll get upset or
maybe they'll cry and then maybe they'll get really super hyperactive or something.
But people with PDA of like, just up and down, just like a crazy mountain
or like a jagged graph sort of before they may have selective mutism.
Now PDA person can go sometimes in displaying that they have selected mutism
in a situation like social events or social gatherings or family gatherings,
family dinners, because they'll get.
Reclusive and return into themselves and it just kind of back out the
situations, almost like they're too overwhelmed to even speak.
So they become a selective mute and just retreat back into themselves.
This is quite common with PDA and combined with other traits on here would
definitely give you a diagnosis of PDA.
If you were displaying this type of selective mutism in those situations.
So number five is triggers that may be hard to pin down.
Now you may not notice that a person with PDA can get
triggered at random times, but.
Uh, not able to really figure out or notice what the issue is, you
know, like what is the trigger?
Like say you walked into a busy restaurant and somebody was screaming and then
that triggered somebody with PDA.
You'd be able to identify the trigger, but sometimes a person with PDA will just
get completely triggered for no reason.
And then all of a sudden you're like, oh my goodness, where's this trigger.
I can't find it.
This is something typically that happens with PDA because.
It could be a host of things.
It could be something that happened ages ago and is now repurchasing
it right here right now.
So having said that if you see some with all these five traits,
then it probably do have a PDA condition and we worth checking out.
See if you can get a formal diagnosis for the actual therapy
for this to help it not cure it.
Cause it's impossible.
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