Author name: webdebutante

Mother of three boys who works from home. My areas of interest are autism (specifically the PDA profile), art, personal growth, spirituality (my faith is non-denominational Christian), and humor.

Pathological Demand Avoidance or Pervasive Drive for Autonomy?

PDA is known as Pathological Demand Avoidance, a term coined by Elizabeth Newson in the 80’s when she first discovered a constellation of unique avoidant traits in a subset of autistic children, but in recent years an alternative was posited to try to more accurately describe the feelings for some behind their in-born aversions: Pervasive […]

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