Why isn’t anything ever easy? Why doesn’t anything ever go to plan? My conversation with Cookie Monster over lunch was a foreshadowing of things to come…the latest challenge that we all face.
Category Archives: Neurodivergence
Myth Buster Friday #8
Some of the earliest work in #autism by Kanner and Bettelheim blamed #RefrigeratorMothers and #DistantFathers. Same for #homosexuality. You would think that in the 21st century the #science of #autism was beyond such irresponsibility. Unfortunately a recent discourse on Twitter with one of the few #ActuallyAutistic academicians in the field shows it is not. Is this beginning of another century of blame the parents? Child abuse witch hunts with an assumption of guilt until proven innocent by the ‘experts’? Another layer of investigation to the already challenging pathway to PDA diagnosis?
4 Steps to #ProudlyPDA
Life with Pathological Demand Avoidance…is NOT hard. It is as simple as 4 steps to happiness…for your little human and you!
Myth Buster Friday #7
The lonely, isolated young person without a single friend is one of the biggest #AutismMyths. PanKwake is certainly not that prototype at all. But #neurodivergence calls into question many things we believe about the concept of introversion…and extroversion.
Anxiety, PDA, ocd and are we thinking about this all wrong?
Originally posted on lovepda:
I have done a lot of learning about anxiety in the past couple of years. I am someone who has a lot of anxiety. I can come in from a totaly personal perspective when I read about it. Not satisfied with a lot of what I read, I have been on…
Myth Buster Friday #6
Autism is a LIFELONG brain difference that affects all areas of life…including #Relationships. But that does not mean #ActuallyAutistic adults cannot have successful ones. Today’s #AutismMyth busting is a guest blog by an #Neurodivergent young woman who knows. Welcome…#NeuroRebel to our #HomeCrazzyHome
Self-Directed Learning & Neurodiversity 