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Life with PDA - Introduction

 

Coming to Terms with PDA

 
     

Autism and the PDA bits

 

Anxiety of the PDA kind

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Managing Education

 

Managing Life

 
     

Managing work

 

Relationships - Independence vs Dependence

 
     

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