I’m sorry E experienced this and hope that the story is shared some how so that they can learn from the mistakes and acknowledge it. For one information of the wider world is present in monotropism cognition, yet a person will be unaware of that information if attention resource is not interacting with that information. He will NEVER trust another 'professional again' even the suggestion of seeing the GP (the one he likes) sends him into a horrendous spiral. and the reality of what us autistics and PDAers are actually like (characteristics, processing style and speed, impairments, etc.

When I interviewed her, she spoke at length about the process of finding the strength to take her pain and transform it into community healing and peacebuilding work. The third talk develops an interest based account of autism (monotropism theory) and highlights how it explains the DAP profile. His sounds are beginning to take on more meaning, as I do the anthropological work of deciphering his internal state and experience of the world, as an outsider.

In high maskers, may be experienced as stress/confusion and built up over time, and ‘explode’ in unexpected ways to seemingly ‘small’ triggers. And PDAers struggle to grapple with the pockets of capability that occur when we can be - really be - autonomously engaged in interests - in those rare instances.

As I thought about it more, I realized that unlike the person-first formulation – which I correct intentionally – I want to keep the words “violence” and “violent” in my writing. They will make it clear when and how they will be available and meet these expectations, or provide as much notice as possible if they cannot. Neurodiversity Movement and Rational Demand Avoidance: The clash of 2 competing biopower technologies in action.

We ask that you tell us if you have any concerns and respond to our questions or queries within the agreed time limits. Thompson seems to talk about different persons instead of the transactional nature of demand avoidance behaviour (Fidler and Christie 2019; Green et al 2018a; Milton 2017). Treat all branch property (including the venues they use) with respect and do not deliberately damage it.

It ended with him becoming a school refuser and, at that point, I completely stopped any attempts to get him into school and ignored any demand from the school, etc. When he turned 18 months old, he lost all language that he had previously attained so the only way he could communicate was through behaviour, and his reaction to any form of demand or restriction to what he wanted to do; at any given time, was violence. May be genuinely highly attuned to social structures and have a penchant for detecting and challenging hierarchy and authority due to heightened perception of its arbitrary and unfair nature. Then there was the young boy with PDA who wouldn’t learn how to read — until his Xbox broke and he couldn’t understand the instruction manual. Autistic persons are known for being eclectic, partly because their monotoropic disposition often “randomly” evolves over time, akin to a rhizome.

These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. He needs belt to re regulate, cleared instruction and expectation, help to overcome what has made him behave as he is 😢. Initial note, Thompson is clearly passionate about the subject of DAP and seems part of its vibrant community. They made his issues WORSE by far and left a hell of a mess for me to deal with (no support) at home.

Shortly after the publication of this article, a number of women came out with allegations of abusive behavior and grooming against Harry Thompson, who then resigned from Neurodivergent Education Support and Training. Additionally, he's mean-spirited and hurts people for sport, defending it by saying it's a PDA characteristic. When the younger sister ran to her mom asking to curl her own hair, her mom was able to explain that curling irons don’t really work on dirty hair. Harry shares his own insights into living life as someone with Pathological Demand Avoidance and how he’s made it work for him.And so many day to day things trigger PDA; gentle suggestions, advice, needing to get up and drink water, the demand of masking, a text message, wearing acceptable clothing, even advertisements!