PDA: Kristy Forbes educates Aucademy
Channel: Aucademy
Date: 2022-07-26

Recorded and originally aired: 26th July, 20:00 London GMT; 12:00 PDT:
*PDA: Kristy Forbes educates Aucademy*
 
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CONTENT WARNING: Suicidality, parent blame and shame, disordered eating
 
In this session, Kristy Forbes discusses Pathological Demand Avoidance and what it means.
 
Guest speaker details: 

Kristy is a formerly identified PDA autistic person with ADHD and is passionate about supporting neurodivergent individuals, their families and those who support them. Her background is in education and social work and she is currently studying Psychology and a specialisation in human rights and antidiscrimination law as a Juris Doctor candidate. Kristy is parent to four PDA autistic children and develops and designs programs for parents raising neurodivergent children and facilitates gentle and principled private membership spaces for individuals and families seeking to leave behind the disorder narrative and move into positive autistic identity and culture. She is the owner and founder of inTune Pathways, with a team of 12 autistic parents of autistic children and is passionate about social reform for ND people in the workplace.
facebook.com/intunepathways
instagram.co/_kristyforbes
www.kristyforbes.com.au

**Please note we are not clinicians or diagnosticians** 

Dr Chloe Farahar (she/they) - Autistic academic (prejudice-reduction; Autistic wellbeing; neurodiversity), educator, & self-advocate

Tanya Adkin (she/her) - SEND advocate, educator, & self-advocate, facebook.com/TanyaAdkinAutistic

Bobbi Elman (she/ they) Autistic parent, educator trainer, Autistic child/young people advocate, self-advocate. Bobbi Elman: NeuroDivergent Autistic Experience Support TM