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PDA or Pathological Demand Avoidance is a concept first conceived in the 1980s to describe autistic or autistic-like children who have an irrational need to refuse even everyday, normal requests and popularised by the parents of autistic children. This was around the time of the DSM-3, the setting of the first Back to the Future film. So much has happened since then - is PDA still a useful label even if it isn't clinically recognised?

This video, the first to discuss PDA directly, discusses the perspectives relating to the history of PDA, the controversy of its development, and a discussion on where PDA goes next.

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🔗 Relevant Links:

PDA Society's What Is PDA booklet
https://www.pdasociety.org.uk/wp-cont...

National Autism Society on PDA:
https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-...

PDA trends: https://trends.google.com/trends/expl..."Pathological Demand Avoidance"&hl=en-GB

Examining the relationship between anxiety and pathological demand avoidance in adults: a mixed methods approach:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...

Pathological demand avoidance syndrome: a necessary distinction within the pervasive developmental disorders: (Archives of Disease in Childhood journal)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12818...

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Chapters:
00:00 The Origins of PDA
04:00 The PDA Society
04:30 Pathological?
06:00 Demand Avoidance
12:00 An Autistic Explanation - when it's NOT PDA
18:20 Three Examples of NOT PDA
18:30 Alternative Explanation - Double Empathy Problem
20:04 Alternative Explanation - Morals
20:53 Alternative Explanation - Sensory
21:30 Undiagnosed Autistic People
22:00 Pervasive Drive for Autonomy
23:58 JASPER THE CAT