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“Infographic showing PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance) across the lifespan. Highlights how children, teens, and adults experience demand avoidance differently, from resistance to everyday demands in childhood, to complex social strategies in adolescence, to workplace and relationship challenges in adulthood. Emphasizes PDA’s core features of autonomy needs, nervous system stress responses, and creativity and resilience across all stages of life.”
Infographic on modifying therapy for autistic individuals. Shows strategies such as adapting communication styles, reducing sensory overwhelm, offering more processing time, respecting autonomy, and incorporating special interests. Emphasizes neurodiversity-affirming approaches that support emotional safety, authentic self-expression, and meaningful therapeutic progress
Infographic on the underdiagnosis of autism in AFAB (assigned female at birth) individuals. Highlights masking, social camouflaging, misdiagnosis with anxiety or personality disorders, and the impact of gendered expectations. Emphasizes the need for neurodiversity-affirming assessment and increased awareness of how autism presents in AFAB people.

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Madylynn Snyder, LMFT #135287

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