This is ridiculously relatable, even down to pretending to be a baby deer in the playground 😆 I've only just realised I probably have PDA. I'm finally figuring out what that means and why I've not been able to keep a job or succeed in life...
So relatable, even down to things I never knew were demand avoiding strategies (like not putting all the pots/shopping away even though it will be in the way, and my intense sense of offence when adverts play to the point that I will literally take my mind anywhere else) Thank you so much for helping me understand myself!
hi i really love your work but the sound quality can make listening to it very difficult to understand but also uncomfortable. i understand that sound equipment is pricey but hopefully if you post anytime soon the sound will be clearer. thank you love your youtube and blog!! truly saved my life
I’ve been investigating PDA as an explanation for my teenage daughters challenging behaviour but this resonates so strongly with me. I could have said exactly what you said about school. Starting to understand where my daughter gets it from. Thank you for sharing.
I can relate to this on shop many levels, this is me and my youngest child. We are going to homeschool longterm as it has improved anxiety levels for us both not having the demands of school and all that goes with it. The pan thing is so me too and the clearing up and art is very much us, great video and animation. Well done.
The more I watch this channel and look into this the more it sounds like me, I've lost most of my jobs because I've avoided going in etc. Even my home life is like this, I avoid doing pretty much everything my parents used to tell me I had to do ( dishes, brushing teeth, having a shower etc) so many different things, I wish I'd known about this earlier
Soooo... Do you have (or want to make) a video on avoidance-avoidance strategies? I.e. conscious efforts you have made to avoid avoiding, or trick your mind into doing things that you'd instinctively avoid (even though you want to do them at some level)? - E.g. when I'm creating a web page I often publish my result straight away, and continuously while I'm working on it, rather than at the end, because if I were to publish it last thing I did, it would never happen. (Most projects thus wind up in a perpetually unfinished, but workable version, rather than no version at all.) - I guess your art style (as you describe it in the video) would be one such avoidance-avoidance strategy. Maybe counter-avoidance would be a better name than avoidance-avoidance. :) - Though avoidance-avoidance appeals to my build in wordplaying mind.
I spent most of my childhood faking illness until high school I would truent. I was caught by my local paper truenting and under the heading snapped in the act. I was bribed to stay in school with a miserly pen and pencil and to be put on some compact scheme for employment as soon as I left the office I banked off! I saw a child psychologist after my mum went through her neurosis of I'm easly lead ect; I was asked only why do I truent my answer was simple because I want too!
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Thank you. School was hell for me. I absolutely hated every moment of it and I am still angry that I was forced into that intolerable situation.
This is ridiculously relatable, even down to pretending to be a baby deer in the playground 😆
I've only just realised I probably have PDA. I'm finally figuring out what that means and why I've not been able to keep a job or succeed in life...
So relatable, even down to things I never knew were demand avoiding strategies (like not putting all the pots/shopping away even though it will be in the way, and my intense sense of offence when adverts play to the point that I will literally take my mind anywhere else)
Thank you so much for helping me understand myself!
Recognizing my childhood of 60 years ago. There's a whole subset of human who were not made for societies organized like ours.
hi i really love your work but the sound quality can make listening to it very difficult to understand but also uncomfortable. i understand that sound equipment is pricey but hopefully if you post anytime soon the sound will be clearer. thank you love your youtube and blog!! truly saved my life
Baby deer are objectively the best thing to focus on
I’ve been investigating PDA as an explanation for my teenage daughters challenging behaviour but this resonates so strongly with me. I could have said exactly what you said about school. Starting to understand where my daughter gets it from. Thank you for sharing.
I can relate to this on shop many levels, this is me and my youngest child. We are going to homeschool longterm as it has improved anxiety levels for us both not having the demands of school and all that goes with it. The pan thing is so me too and the clearing up and art is very much us, great video and animation. Well done.
The more I watch this channel and look into this the more it sounds like me, I've lost most of my jobs because I've avoided going in etc. Even my home life is like this, I avoid doing pretty much everything my parents used to tell me I had to do ( dishes, brushing teeth, having a shower etc) so many different things, I wish I'd known about this earlier
Soooo... Do you have (or want to make) a video on avoidance-avoidance strategies? I.e. conscious efforts you have made to avoid avoiding, or trick your mind into doing things that you'd instinctively avoid (even though you want to do them at some level)? - E.g. when I'm creating a web page I often publish my result straight away, and continuously while I'm working on it, rather than at the end, because if I were to publish it last thing I did, it would never happen. (Most projects thus wind up in a perpetually unfinished, but workable version, rather than no version at all.) - I guess your art style (as you describe it in the video) would be one such avoidance-avoidance strategy.
Maybe counter-avoidance would be a better name than avoidance-avoidance. :) - Though avoidance-avoidance appeals to my build in wordplaying mind.
I spent most of my childhood faking illness until high school I would truent. I was caught by my local paper truenting and under the heading snapped in the act.
I was bribed to stay in school with a miserly pen and pencil and to be put on some compact scheme for employment as soon as I left the office I banked off!
I saw a child psychologist after my mum went through her neurosis of I'm easly lead ect; I was asked only why do I truent my answer was simple because I want too!
What causes this?