A review by cam7301
The PDA Paradox: The Highs and Lows of My Life on a Little-Known Part of the Autism Spectrum by Harry Thompson

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This portrayal of PDA and neurodivergence, while I'm sure authentic to the author, felt uncomfortable for me. It is written from a privileged perspective of white middle-class Western maleness, which is only sporadically and partially acknowledged. There is little-to-no acknowledgement of the way the author's behaviour hurt those around him, with the result that it feels like he is using his neurotype to excuse what seems to amount not just to "troublemaking" but bullying. As a neurodivergent person from a different background who was frequently on the receiving end of the sort of "bad behaviour" he describes, this did not help me and is not really a portrayal of PDA that I would want people around me to think of.