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Pathological Demand Avoidance: The Everyday Struggle You Can’t See
Struggling with everyday tasks as a neurodivergent adult? In this candid and insightful episode of The Neurodivergent Experience, hosts Jordan James and Simon Scott unpack the lived reality of Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) — a form of demand sensitivity often misunderstood, dismissed, or mislabelled as laziness.
From dodging the dishwasher to putting off doctor’s appointments, and from procrastinating over paperwork to resisting even self-imposed goals, we explore:
What PDA really is — and why the NHS still doesn’t formally recognise it
How demands (even ones we place on ourselves)…
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