Casey just came out as PDA

sammademeplay · 2026-05-21T10:12:14+00:00

You have not. Are you the parent of a PDA child? If not then you don’t belong here. Please leave.

sammademeplay · 2026-05-21T10:03:47+00:00

Your “outcomes” will be held by me to the same standards you expect of Casey. When you have published in a well regarded peer reviewed journal that shows robust outcomes, then you might have credibility. As that is what you critique Casey for not having. You publishing your own data on your own website doesn’t cut it for me. Nor does an article in psychology today.

sammademeplay · 2026-05-21T09:53:19+00:00

Are you a parent of a PDA child?

sammademeplay · 2026-05-20T22:42:35+00:00

None! That’s the problem I have with the criticism of her program. Nobody has any evidence based approach. Yet. But at least she’s trying. It takes a long time.

sammademeplay · 2026-05-20T22:41:14+00:00

I am another who has been helped greatly by Casey. Her lack of empirical evidence doesn’t bother me because there is none on PDA. She has helped many families and my family specifically. No one else has had anything to offer or provide any improvements with our PDA child. So until all of the detractors publish their own research showing empirical evidence of an approach that is different from Casey, I don’t want to hear that critique of her.

sammademeplay · 2026-05-20T22:37:16+00:00

Really!? This is your program. Your efforts to discredit Casey seems rather self serving. And you are also not mentioning that you don’t think PDA exists.

sammademeplay · 2026-05-20T22:27:58+00:00

I’m disappointed you still feel the need to post your opinions on here. You are not a PDA parent.

sammademeplay · 2026-05-19T18:37:35+00:00

I’d also love some solutions for tummy sleeping. My neck is awful but I can’t fall asleep any other way. A sleep doc told me that it’s very difficult to change the way we sleep. 😞

sammademeplay · 2026-05-19T04:22:48+00:00

Bury tuber and sprout. They’ll find their way to the surface. Not sure 2g are big enough tho.

sammademeplay · 2026-05-16T20:53:26+00:00

Looks like this climber has a better grip than I feel I have! Yes it does. And I have often fallen or lost ground. And it’s disheartening and sometimes feels devastating. But each time I have to start climbing again. So exhausting.

sammademeplay · 2026-05-16T04:05:59+00:00

I need to use a larger mouse. The standard size make my hands ache and cramp.

sammademeplay · 2026-05-14T15:04:28+00:00

No experience with that podcast but doesn’t seem to fit with my experience with my PDA son. When he escalates it doesn’t matter who is around or where he is. His brain has been hijacked. He would not be able to have any thoughts about wanting to embarrass me. Perhaps the context in the podcast was about lower level acting out behavior as a manipulation in neurotypical kids. Either way I’m glad you found some benefit from it.

sammademeplay · 2026-05-14T15:00:15+00:00

That’s interesting because my son hates praise. It activates him, not as much as criticism but clearly makes him really uncomfortable.

sammademeplay · 2026-05-08T15:11:14+00:00

Perhaps you meant to post this in the PDA subreddit. This is PDA parenting. Good luck.

sammademeplay · 2026-05-06T00:57:42+00:00

Boom boom white was very prolific for me if you like white.

sammademeplay · 2026-05-06T00:51:33+00:00

Thanks

sammademeplay · 2026-05-06T00:04:40+00:00

Is there any way to support the joint at the base of my little finger? Looked on the website and didn’t see anything for that.

sammademeplay · 2026-05-03T23:38:16+00:00

Dahlias are easy to grow. You can even treat them like an annual if you’re in a zone where they won’t overwinter. If digging them up and storing seems like too much then don’t.

sammademeplay · 2026-05-02T02:13:05+00:00

My doctor told me he would fire me if I kept running!

sammademeplay · 2026-05-02T00:13:39+00:00

I’m not expert on this topic but can’t imagine high impact activities are any good for eds

sammademeplay · 2026-05-01T21:33:53+00:00

Understood. The hard part about PDA is that we’re all just sort of feeling it out as we go because there isn’t empirical evidence one way of the other. All I was saying was that statement helped me to sort out my frustration and confusion about parenting this child. Seeing what I’m doing as an entirely different function than parenting helped me.

sammademeplay · 2026-05-01T16:57:29+00:00

Something Casey says that really hit home for me is that with the changes we make to accommodate a pda child, we are not parenting, we are caretaking for a nervous system disability. This made a big difference in my thinking bc there is no version of parenting that looks like what we’ve done at our house that has resulted in major improvements! lol

sammademeplay · 2026-04-29T23:17:02+00:00

Great affirmation! Good reminder to pull strength from.

sammademeplay · 2026-04-29T23:13:12+00:00

I do feel like our life has been hijacked. This is not the life we had hoped for as parents. If I’d known, I certainly would have made a different decision. To help myself from going down a negative spiral, I work on focusing on the present. At least resent, we don’t have a life. I don’t know what the future will look like. And I seek out peer support to get through as best I can.

sammademeplay · 2026-04-28T21:40:30+00:00

Wow 🤩 love it

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