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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op - there’s so much crossover with all those. I am always a little circumspect when someone gets given so many labels. Tell us his specific challenges and we can be more helpful [/quote]OP here. At school and therapy, we see the PDA any time a demand is placed on him like fine motor skills. He’ll try to elope, becomes hyper and moves around the furniture, flicks light switches etc. It limits his progress in school and OT. He has no issue participating the rest of the day whether it’s circle time, story time, or snack. At home, we see it with any demand like potty time, brushing teeth, or taking a bath.[/quote]
Op, has the parent of an almost 9 year old with autism, what jumps out to me most here is that most of these things he is avoiding seems to have a sensory component to them. I also wonder if there isn't a communication part of it too, as far as maybe your son can't yet communicate things very well, I didn't catch if he was verbal or not. When my kid was two or three, she was resistant to things like teeth brushing, potty training, and the bath for the most part. 
But these were delays in gross and fine motor skills. You also mentioned your son having a hard time in school when it's time to use fine motor skills, does he have a delay in those?

I'm not trying to argue for or against the pda, it's just that these things jumped out to me is perhaps being more delays related to the autism rather than PDA, just related to the fact that I had a child similar and she is not at all pda, in fact she's really well behaved. [/quote]

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