![]() ![]() Time – time is an additional demand on top of the demand itself.In addition to these more obvious direct demands, there’s a whole raft of indirect and internal demands, including: Let’s first look at direct demands. Direct demands are requests or questions made by other people or situations – such as ‘put your shoes on’, ‘sit here and wait’, ‘pay this bill’ or ‘would you like a drink?’. It can be helpful to think about some of the different ‘types’ of demands. Thank you to PDA adult and advocate Julia Daunt for sharing this image with us: What are demands?ĭemands in PDA are many and cumulative. In this blog post Riko (a PDA adult and parent) shares their personal experience of the differences between autistic demand avoidance and pathological demand avoidance. PDA demand avoidance isn’t a choice and is lifelong – it’s seen in infants and remains part of the experience into old age. With understanding, helpful approaches from others and finding self-coping and coping strategies, it can become more manageable. ![]() the avoidance can vary, depending on an individual’s capacity for demands at the time, their level of anxiety, their overall health/well-being or the environment (people, places and things).Ī PDA profile is also a spectrum and presents differently in different people. Some individuals may have a more externalised or active presentation – where demand avoidance may be overt, physical, aggressive or controlling. Others have more internalised or passive presentations – where demands may be resisted more quietly, anxiety is internalised and difficulties are masked. Many may have a variable presentation, depending on other factors like how well they are managing at the time, the environment, the setting, their age and so on.in addition, there can be an ‘irrational quality’ to the avoidance – for instance, a seemingly dramatic reaction to a tiny request, or the feeling of hunger inexplicably stopping someone from being able to eat.Some people explain that it’s the expectation (from someone else or yourself) which leads to a feeling of lack of control, then anxiety increases and panic can set in ![]()
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