Pathological demand avoidance (PDA) is an extreme resistance to everyday demands, such as getting dressed or brushing the teeth. Researchers often associate PDA with autism, especially in children.

Pathological demand avoidance (PDA) is a tendency for autistic individuals to struggle when overwhelmed by demands. On the outside, it can look like defiance or choosing not to do necessary things. On ...

McFly drummer Harry Judd’s wife Izzy Johnston revealed this week that one of their three children has pathological demand avoidance (PDA). “To the outsider looking in, they might see that as a sort of ...

“Demand avoidance”—a knee-jerk, defiant reaction to any direction to cooperate with a task or to make a transition—is a phenomenon that I see frequently in my work with families of highly sensitive ...

ALL children throw tantrums if they don’t want to do something – empty the dishwasher, lay the table, tidy shoes away… So when Izzy, wife of McFly drummer Harry Judd, said one of their children was so ...

Izzy Judd has shared that one of her children shows traits of what some experts call ‘pathological demand avoidance’. The condition causes a behavioural profile linked to autism that can make everyday ...

“Task paralysis”, a type of emotional overwhelm that can stop people from completing tasks like doing the dishes, is a little more than just “regular” procrastination. Often associated with ADHD, it ...

'Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)? What exactly is that?', I remember saying to the UK clinical psychologist when we had my now 13-year-old son, Eddie, assessed for autism in 2019. The 'A' word was ...

Izzy was candid in opening up on the condition - and how she has adapted her parenting to cater for it ONE of McFly drummer Harry Judd’s three children has been given a life-changing health diagnosis, ...