"Charlie" is an eight-year-old child with autism. Her parents are worried because she often responds to requests with insults, aggression and refusal. Simple demands, such as being asked to get ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

How to help your child deal with their anxiety about completing the hundreds of tasks you expect from them in a day. February 6, 2023 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on ...