AuRise Creative

📣 REMINDER!!!

I'm speaking at the 13th Annual Disability & Mental Health Summit, and I want to tell you why this one feels personal.

🎤 "What I Wish My Family Knew About Pathological Demand Avoidance / Pervasive Drive for Autonomy"

📅 Thursday, May 7th | ⏰ 10:00 AM

PDA — Pathological Demand Avoidance, increasingly reframed as Pervasive Drive for Autonomy — is a profile that sits inside the autism spectrum and is one of the most misunderstood, most frequently missed, and honestly most exhausting things to navigate without anyone around you understanding what it actually is.
Here's what it's not: it's not a child choosing to be difficult. It's not a person deciding the rules don't apply to them. It's not stubbornness or a personality flaw or something that would go away if the parents just had firmer boundaries.
Here's what it is: an anxiety-driven need to maintain autonomy and control over one's own life — including the small stuff, including the stuff that seems like it shouldn't be a big deal, including demands that come from people you love and trust. The nervous system is the one calling the shots, not the will.
I've watched people with PDA get disciplined, punished, pathologized, and misdiagnosed for years. I've watched families fall apart trying strategies that made perfect sense — and made everything worse — because nobody told them that with PDA, conventional approaches often backfire.
That's what this session is about. Not theory. Not a clinical overview. The real stuff. The human stuff. What I actually wish the families who love people like me already knew.
If this sounds like your life — please come. If it sounds like someone you love — please share this with them.
See you May 7th.

(Tag someone who needs to hear about PDA 👇)

People ask me sometimes why I offer a free consultation when a lot of developers don't.

Honest answer: because I was scammed once. By the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. I took out loans to get a degree that didn't deliver what it promised, and I spent years navigating that system trying to get any kind of resolution. I know what it feels like to pay for something and not get what you were told you'd get.

I decided early on that I was never going to run a business that left people with that feeling.

So the free consultation exists because I want you to know what you're getting before you spend money. It exists because sometimes the answer is "you don't actually need me, here's what you should do instead." It exists because the relationship I want with clients is one where they trust me, and trust takes a conversation, not a sales page.

I make stuff for the internet. Websites, web apps, email templates, plugins, tools. I do it because I'm autistic and code is a special interest and I genuinely love it.

But I also do it because small businesses deserve a real partner in this, not just a contractor who takes the payment and disappears.

That's what I'm here for.

Book the consult. Let's talk: www.aurisecreative.com

Something real for a second.

When I started AuRise Creative, I made a decision that some people thought was strange for a web design business: I decided I would rather turn down clients than work with people who stood against the things I believe in.

I believe in accessibility—because the internet should work for everyone, not just the people who built it. I believe in equity—because I have seen firsthand what happens when systems are designed for the majority and everyone else has to scramble. I'm autistic. I'm q***r. I have spent a significant portion of my life navigating spaces that weren't built with people like me in mind.

Those experiences don't live in a separate part of my brain from the work I do. They're in it. In every site I build with real accessibility standards. In every time I say "you can do it cheaper, but here's what that costs" instead of just taking the money. In every free emergency repair that I do because no small business should face that panic alone.

When you hire AuRise Creative, you're not just getting a website. You're getting someone who cares whether it actually works for everyone who needs to use it.

That matters. I think it matters to you too, or you wouldn't have read this far.

If values matter to you when choosing who you work with—that 30-minute consultation is there. No pressure, just a real conversation.
www.aurisecreative.com