Reflections
Essays from Kristy Forbes exploring PDA, autistic experience, parenting, identity, care, systems and the ordinary moments that shape family life.
I Stopped Getting Up to Play. I Started Playing From the Floor.
Jul 25, 2026
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There was a long stretch of years where I believed I was failing my children because I couldn't get up.
I'd absorbed all the messaging about play. Get on the floor. Follow their lead. Be animated, be available, enter...
I Stopped Pulling Them Out of Their World and I Started Stepping Into It
May 31, 2026
Imagination isn't a problem. IĀ really want to say that upfront because for so many PDA kids, imagination is how they stay connected to the world, not how they escape it. Role play, characters, other realities, these are ...