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At the end of the book, there will be a few pages dedicated to summarising the difficulties you have identified and the strategies that you have found that are helpful. Your parents and those caring for you may want to photocopy these summary pages so everyone can access them easily and keep them in mind. There will also be space to tell us, if you wish to do so, about any other difficulties and strategies that have not been included here.

Autism Spectrum Disorder and PDA

Before PDA was described, many strengths and differences were grouped together under one name: Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD for short. You share the main characteristics of ASD as well as sharing the main characteristics of PDA. So you have a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder with these other features which can be called PDA.

What PDA is not

PDA is not your fault or your family’s

fault. It is not anyone’s fault. Each

person’s brain is different: some

people are better at

some things than others

are and some people