McFly drummer Harry Judd’s wife Izzy Johnston revealed this week that one of their three children has pathological demand avoidance (PDA). “To the outsider looking in, they might see that as a sort of ...
McFly drummer Harry Judd’s wife Izzy Johnston has revealed that one of their three children has pathological demand avoidance (PDA). PDA syndrome is a specific profile within the Autism spectrum, ...
Pathological Demand Avoidance — or PDA — is suddenly everywhere. Once a niche term used mostly within autism communities, it’s now trending across TikTok, showing up in therapy rooms, and sparking ...
“Demand avoidance”—a knee-jerk, defiant reaction to any direction to cooperate with a task or to make a transition—is a phenomenon that I see frequently in my work with families of highly sensitive ...