 autism and pathological demand avoidance. People with a PDA profile are driven to avoid everyday demands and expectations to an extreme extent. What does it look like? They can resist and avoid the ordinary demands of life. They may use social strategies as a part of avoidance, such as distracting or giving excuses to why they can't do something. They may display obsessive behaviour that is often focused on other people. For example, someone who has expectations on them or are giving them a hard demand. Looking back, what were my triggers? Demands without softeners like please. You know, someone just says pass me the salt. You should have or need to statements. Peer pressure. Like this video. Make sure to check out my other stuff, my youtube, my podcast, the instagram blogs, all in the profile description.