@SamFellowesHPS Oh Sam, sometimes your comments make me gush in admiration. Nick Chown often elicits a similar response from me, & I am happy he has agreed to be a panel examiner on my first PhD deadline. I will do my best to respond to your comments.
@SamFellowesHPS Science tends to go through paradigm shifts, especially when something is severely critiqued at odds with predictions. Physics to some extent is evolving again due to recent research results.
@SamFellowesHPS One could argue our understanding of Disorders is due a major paradigm change. I think there is a credible case to stop using them.
@SamFellowesHPS You are correct critiquing things is a good thing. Excessive criticism, not always so.
@SamFellowesHPS I think from those advocating PDA as an ASD, are referring to the entire autistic population, which confusingly includes any non-autistic persons with PDA. So I think they view it a bit like this.
@SamFellowesHPS That PDA is dimensional, perpendicular to autism severity/ functioning (yes I know this is a false dichotomy & flawed conceptualisation of autism).
Dimensional approach to PDA, & yet it is meant to be a rare ASD subtype. How exactly is taking a narrow definition of PDA (hence its rare ASD subtype), fits in with broader spectrum nature of disorders & how narrow categories do not reflect human nature?
Point is, how is adopting a narrow definition & approaching PDA as a rare ASD subtype; inline with current understandings of human nature, that disorders & most human characteristics are spectrum in nature & overlap each other? How exactly is it dimensional?
Or this another one these things, where a PDA is an ASD supporters are essentially trying to blag it & hope no-one actually checks it?
Saw this "Our society doesn't fear autism". I do not know where to start with how problematic & wrong this statement is.
No, I do not have the spoons to respond to this problematic statement today. It is an issue in wider context the statement was made.
Subtext of this is that society often does fear autism. It is an essential feature of commodifying autism, & creating a demand for interventions/ treatments to "cure"/ wipeout autism. @anneemcguire powerfully argues this in her "War On Autism" book.
PDA is meant to have coding deficits in social identity/ pride/ shame. I am unconvinced they are actually present, & that the proposed deficits cause social interaction issues in PDA.
Newson argued demand avoidance was obsessive in nature as persons know no boundaries, i.e., motivated to express avoidance of various demands because do not know any better.
This, exactly this, is an important reason why I am so annoyed with certain autism stakeholders advocating PDA is a form of autism. Most autistic persons do NOT want autism to be divided. Perhaps, other's can empathise my annoyance on the topic?
This is also one of the reasons why I am kind of unimpressed with Chloe Farahar platforming Harry Thompson on Aucademy. She expressed similar sentiments to me at the 2019 PARC conference & has spoken against dividing autism.
The literature tells us autism cannot be divided. Others, including @HappeLab have written about it (admittedly outside PDA literature for Happe).
@HiggsMandy@HappeLab I have written about it, inside and outside PDA literature, citing @HappeLab. I am unsure why she does not writen about it in PDA literature. Best guess, is that it undermines the case for PDA being autism?