Sometimes I love being effectively heatproof.

#neurovariant

PDA / MHAPI 2025 Every year, I create prompts for poetry for Mental Health Awareness Month. This poem is for the prompt: pathological demand avoidance.

#PDA might mean one thing to a lot of people, but in the #mentalhealth arena it often means #pathologicaldemandavoidance which is often experienced by #neurodivergent / #neurovariant individuals. #MentalHealthAwareness is a great time to shine a light on what that can feel like for us.