Trying to navigate Christmas is such a minefield, especially after having NO Christmas last year. This year using low demands seems to encourage more demands from them! Leading to exhausted parents trying to keep up with unrealistic demands in the few days before Christmas. I believe our young person thinks we are superhuman with the amount of activities we've so far been able to roll outm. It's not sustainable. By Christmas Day we'll only be fit for pressing a couple of buttons on the microwave..
I found your writing when my oldest entered what we think was PDA burnout. I’m curious about the different between autistic demand avoidance versus PDA. I have one kid who seems more classic externalized PDA and another internalized PDA, and my middle kid has a fierce independent streak and melts down when things down go according to his routines and started exhibiting more demand avoidance as he started to approach puberty.
Trying to navigate Christmas is such a minefield, especially after having NO Christmas last year. This year using low demands seems to encourage more demands from them! Leading to exhausted parents trying to keep up with unrealistic demands in the few days before Christmas. I believe our young person thinks we are superhuman with the amount of activities we've so far been able to roll outm. It's not sustainable. By Christmas Day we'll only be fit for pressing a couple of buttons on the microwave..
Travel and immigration with a neurodivergent family is of very strong interest to me!
I found your writing when my oldest entered what we think was PDA burnout. I’m curious about the different between autistic demand avoidance versus PDA. I have one kid who seems more classic externalized PDA and another internalized PDA, and my middle kid has a fierce independent streak and melts down when things down go according to his routines and started exhibiting more demand avoidance as he started to approach puberty.
Just trying to determine the difference. Thanks for any insight!