<p>How do you get anything done when you're a PDA adult? When everything feels like a demand, from responding to an email from your lawyer to the simple fact your body says it's time to get a sip of water? </p><p>Just like the <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/0bxPowz2mDIlSXOXZyEWvR?si=Uzzazg-9RRymE_hptI3w7Q" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">⁠autistic burnout meditation⁠</a> I created for myself,these are affirmations I recorded for myself and that are having quite the impact on getting stuff done in my life. Stuff that society expects, that "normal" people do, that my body expects of me, etc. </p><p>I now do things because I WANT TO DO THEM. Not because my body says it needs it, because my phone tells me I need to answer a call, or because normal people make their bed in the morning. </p><p>I hope this helps other PDA adults <strong>reframe </strong>the demands intostuff you want to do for yourself, because it's important to YOU. </p><p>PDA stands for Pervasive Drive for Autonomy, also known asPathological Demand Avoidance. It can greaty impact your quality of life as a PDA single mother, because the underlying dynamics that enable you to do all the things for your child, are not the same that require you to do all the things for yourself. </p><p>For your child, it's an ancestral instinct geared towardsthe survival of the species, so you do everything your kids need. But when it comes to you, as an autistic single mother with PDA, especially after you're out of battery, you will 100% refuse to wash your face in the evening, or to respond to your friends who are checking in on you. There's a bit of mental exhaustion mixed with task paralysis. </p><p><br /></p><p>So let's reframe those demands, into things we <strong>want </strong>for ourselves. This invisible disability, this neurodivergent life doesn't have to take a massive toll on our social lives, on our health, on our careers, on our daily functioning, on our ability to ask for help, and such. </p><p> </p><p>Keywords (look away!)</p><p>PDA affirmations, autistic adults, autism burnout recovery,PDA autism support, neurodivergent affirmations, gentle self care autism, PDA meditation, nervous system regulation autism, demand avoidance adults, low demand lifestyleautism, autism meditation, guided affirmations adults</p><p> PDA affirmations for demand avoidance</p><p>PDA profile adult support strategies affirmations for taskavoidance autism internalized demand resistance affirmations </p><p>PDA Affirmations for Adults,</p><p>PDA Meditation for Adult PDA, </p><p>Adult PDA Meditation</p><p>Adult PDA Affirmations</p><p>PDA Affirmations for Autistic Adults, Adult PDA Meditation,Adult PDA Affirmations, Meditation for PDA adults- Pervasive Drive for Autonomy- Pathological Demand Avoidance - </p><p>PDA Autism Affirmations for Adults, PDA Affirmations forAutistic Adults, Getting Shit Done with PDA</p><p></p>