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PDA Day to Day: Parenting Pathological Demand Avoidance/ Pervasive Demand for Autonomy with Danielle Sullivan

The Neurodiverging Podcast

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The Differences Between PDA and a Kiddo

There's different ways that kids will respond to a request. Kids with neurodivergent or dealing with significant trauma just by living in a world that is not appropriate for them. Their environment is not sensory friendly, requests are not given in a way that we always understand. Children have very little control over their own lives in most cases and so it makes sense to me that lots of children would say no when you ask them to do something.

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