Understanding Equalizing Behavior — Why Neurodivergent Kids Always “Have to Get the Last Word” Why Autistic & ADHD Kids Seem to “Talk Back” After Being Corrected Ever correct your child—only to have them throw your mistake right back at you? That’s not defiance. That’s equalizing behavior—a brain’s fast-track attempt to restore fairness, especially in autistic and ADHD kids. To them, correction can feel like a power imbalance. And their reaction? Mimicking, pointing fingers, or “one-upping” isn’
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Is your child or teen an externalized expression of PDA (fight/flight) or more (freeze/fawn)? Two things to remember, it can be a mix! And equalizing behavior for an intenalized expression of PDA can be turned towards self (e.g. hitting oneself, cutting, restricting one's own eating, staying up late to get back to a place of nervous system safety, destroying one's own things, etc). I often see parents come into my coaching practice and programs with internalized experssions later (tweens and tee
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Here is a one minute training to help you determine whether the PDA neurotype describes your child. I generally look for these five things: 👉 survival drive for autonomy that consistently overrides other survival instincts. 👉 equalizing behavior that looks controlling to get back to a place of nervous system safety. 👉 “high masking” (looks like two different versions of oneself). Not every PDA child or teen will be high masking especially once they hit burnout. 👉 constant need for undivided
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Relate? 😝 This is a perfect example of “equalizing” - a PDA child needing to feel “above” a safe person to get back to perceived safety. This is nervous-system driven behavior. 👉 not goal-oriented 👉 not a “lack of skills” 👉 not even under their conscious control And as parents we have a “decision point” when this happens: we can activate them by trying to teach or correct in the moment OR we can let it gooooooooo… I know this is hard, I know your nervous system is activated, I know it feels
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ill expand a bit on why these tactics are helpful for me, but its important to note that PDA is fickle and ANYTHING can become a demand. these dont work every time because there isnt any one right answer, and every PDAer is different! #actuallyautistic #asd #pdaautism #unmaskingautism
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