PDA Voices (Pathological Demand Avoidance)

PDA North America host Alan Hevelone joins Amanda McGovern in conversation about her life as someone that is PDA autistic (Pathological Demand Avoidance/Persistent Drive for Autonomy). Learn more about PDA autism: www.pdanorthamerica.org

Alan Hevelone talks with adult PDA trans man, Roman Dyre, about his struggles growing up with PDA undiagnosed and assigned female at birth. They talk through the ways Roman learned to accommodate himself, as a child who'd been identified as gifted and talented but not yet as disabled. Roman, now 30, takes us on a journey through his life and what it was like to be diagnosed at 27, divorce his husband, and leave behind his life as a trophy housewife, starting from scratch as an unmasked trans man with PDA. Learn more about PDA: www.pdanorthamerica.org Trainings from PDA North America: learn.pdanorthamerica.org

PDA Voices Podcast with Lauren Brown, Adult PDAer (Pathological Demand Avoidance) Alan Hevelone talks with Lauren Brown, adult PDAer from Poughkeepsie, NY and parent of two children that are PDA autistic. Learn more: www.pdanorthamerica.org