Share this page!

Richard Woods Profile picture
Twitter logo
3 Aug, 4 tweets, 1 min read
That moment when you realise just how dogmatic & pervasive a worldview must be to endlessly pathologise different characteristics of autistic persons. You could probably say it is a pathological tendency (irony is not lost on me).
The sheer ceaselessness of it (habit of pathologising any features seen in autistic persons), is highly disconcerting when you stop to think about it, & its implications. It is used to justify all sorts of poor standards & treatment towards us.
It makes me even more annoyed at the arrogance of "PDA is an ASD" supporters assuming PDA is an ASD due to potential similarities in behaviour presentations. Also that autism understandings will evolve to encompass PDA. Who the hell do they think they are?!?!
The point is, they want to expand autism to include features which are pathologised with deficits.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Richard Woods

Richard Woods Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @Richard_Autism

Richard Woods Profile picture
31 Jul
@DrJudes03 @DrJoelSchwartz @PDASociety It is perfectly reasonable when
1) Help4Psychology produce an algorithm that is not representative of broader literature. E.g. see:
@DrJudes03 @DrJoelSchwartz @PDASociety 2) Goes against Christie's views to reduce number of PDA traits.

"refine our understanding of the essential criteria and the core difficulty with social identity" Christie, 2016, s60.
@DrJudes03 @DrJoelSchwartz @PDASociety From O'Nions and Eaton, 2021, p413. There are more traits there, than in most PDA behaviour profiles.
Read 28 tweets
Richard Woods Profile picture
24 Jul
@KatyBenson20 @PughJoanne ADHD does have social communication issues, often receiving social communication interventions. Also strong case ADHD should be moved into disruptive, impulse-control, & conduct disorders. It was not due to some research (I am unaware of exact details).
@KatyBenson20 @PughJoanne Persons most likely to have ODD & Conduct Disorder are those with ADHD (From my understanding).
@KatyBenson20 @PughJoanne Also ODD & Conduct Disorder also often have social communication issues & receive interventions for that. PDA maybe social communication issues really is no excuse for it to remain in autism.
Read 28 tweets
Richard Woods Profile picture
21 Jul
That moment when you discover you have been stressing over a deadline, that does not even matter! Avoidable, avoidance of demands!!!!!!!!! Argh!
My response:
PDA as a term, seems not to be mentioned. There are also other issues that it is unethical to favour viewing PDA as an ASD over its other proposed outlooks, when they await direct empirical testing...
Read 27 tweets
Richard Woods Profile picture
21 Jul
Reflecting upon Jonathan Green's talk yesterday about Demand-Avoidance is relational to each other. My thinking has been to separate demands & avoidance to make it reflect transactional understandings of PDA; which we all should be working with.
I am making a subtle but important change to "Demand Avoidance Phenomena", to "Demand-Avoidance Phenomena". I think I will add the hyphen whenever using a "full name" for PDA.
One thing that I recalled is how in Newson's first publication on PDA in 1983, she calls "Pathological demand-avoidance syndrome". There are signs of a transactional perspective being taken, like how roleplay/ fantasy seems to be a coping mechanism.
Read 8 tweets
Richard Woods Profile picture
20 Jul
This is a fundamental reason why I am so annoyed that key "PDA is an ASD" have not tried to investigate if divergent outlooks on PDA are valid. They basically assumed that their own views on PDA are correct & everyone else's is mistaken (& also on autism).
It is so arrogant to only conduct research & advocate for PDA as an ASD, despite the literature being contested, with both evidence & other experts stating PDA is seen outside of autism. Also PDA maybe other things, like an Attachment Disorder.
It is NOT scientific to only conduct research to support one outlook on the topic, such as PDA is an ASD (this has been happening). Researchers should not be favouring any particular outlook over another.
Read 26 tweets
Richard Woods Profile picture
19 Jul
Tomorrow is the PARC PDA event: Understanding PDA. Speaker order is:
@milton_damian
Keith Howie.
Jonathan Green.
Break.
@FidgetyF_cker.
@Richard_Autism (no idea who that is - joke).
Grace Trundle.
Then Round table.

Most/ All the talks should be recorded.
My slides are already added to LSBU's repository & I have a video ready to go on @autimedes based on my talk. I will add the slides to my researchgate on Wednesday (when LSBU slides embargo is lifted).
Dani Ropar should be hosting and doing the intro.
Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @Richard_Autism has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @Richard_Autism!

Read all threads by @Richard_Autism

:(