PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance) is widely understood to be a profile on the autism spectrum, involving the avoidance of everyday demands and the use of ‘social’ strategies as part of this avoidance. Autism is dimensional, this means that it varies a lot from one person to another. A PDA profile describes one way in which autism can present.
PDA individuals share autistic characteristics and in addition have many of the ‘key features’ of a PDA profile:
(PDA Society, 2023)
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