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Pathological demand avoidance (PDA) or extreme demand avoidance (EDA) is a proposed disorder, and proposed sub-type of autism spectrum disorder, defined by characteristics such as a demand avoidance—which is a greater-than-typical refusal to comply with requests or expectations—and extreme efforts to avoid social demands.
In 1980 she proposed the term pathological demand avoidance [7] to describe people who do not want to co-operate with instructions even when this would be in their own interest. She had identified a group of children who had this characteristic and they would "avoid everyday demands and expectations to an extreme extent".
Pathological demand avoidance is a proposed disorder characterised by avoidance of every day demands. It was proposed by British psychologist Elizabeth Newsom in 1983 for children who did not then meet the criteria for autism and which she felt shared certain other characteristics, such as an interest in pretend play.
We are not ignoring the demand and we are not wanting to refuse. We are stuck, stuck in uncontrollable, irrational anxiety, which sometimes might get to fear, of the demand. I know this because I am an adult with Autism with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA). This stems from extreme anxiety, 24/7, since birth. I do not truly know what calm is.
Mady Hornig (born 1957) is an American psychiatrist and an associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. [2] A physician-scientist, her research involves clinical, epidemiological, and animal model research on autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions.
The scientific study of the causes of developmental disorders involves many theories. Some of the major differences between these theories involves whether environment disrupts normal development, if abnormalities are pre-determined, or if they are products of human evolutionary history which become disorders in modern environments (see evolutionary psychiatry). [5]
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Pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) [1] is a historic psychiatric diagnosis first defined in 1980 that has since been incorporated into autism spectrum disorder in the DSM-5 (2013).