Author: Rational Demand Avoidance

I am an early career autistic academic studying on the PGCert Autism and Asperger's Syndrome and Sheffield Hellam University. My main research areas are Autism, Rational (Pathological) Demand Avoidance, Critical Autism Studies. I have 3 articles and 1 book chapter published. with 1 more accepted and more in development or submitted. Link to my twitter: twitter.com/Richard_Autism My Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8292-632X My Researchgate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard_Woods10

A RESPONSE TO HARRY THOMPSON’S 16/01/2019 YOUTUBE VIDEO AND ITS DISCUSSION.

23 Jan 201923 Jan 2019

A RESPONSE TO HARRY THOMPSON’S 16/01/2019 YOUTUBE VIDEO AND ITS DISCUSSION. Introduction. A person who identifies with Demand Avoidance Phenomenon (DAP, commonly known as Pathological Demand Avoidance) named Harry…

09TH OF DECEMBER 2018 UPDATE TO THE LIST OF DEMAND AVOIDANCE PHENOMENON ARTICLES.

09TH OF DECEMBER 2018 UPDATE TO THE LIST OF DEMAND AVOIDANCE PHENOMENON ARTICLES. Introduction. After collecting all the medical ontologies in the literature I am aware of, I have…

31st AUGUST 2018 UPDATE TO THE LIST OF RDA ARTICLES.

31st AUGUST 2018 UPDATE TO THE LIST OF RDA ARTICLES. Introduction. This entry, repeats wider information published previously. There have been several articles to the published: 2 short letter…

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: IS IT IMPERATIVE THAT THE PDA LABEL BE ACCEPTED?

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: IS IT IMPERATIVE THAT THE PDA LABEL BE ACCEPTED? From talking to PDA supporters on twitter today, they seem to know that the autism label has…

Critical Reflections on the Pathological Demand Avoidance debate: A response to The Practice MK blog and discussion.

15 May 201814 May 2018

Critical Reflections on the Pathological Demand Avoidance debate: A response to The Practice MK blog and discussion. Introduction. This is a rejected article I wrote in July 2017; I…

07th MAY 2018 UPDATE TO THE LIST OF PDA ARTICLES.

07th MAY 2018 UPDATE TO THE LIST OF PDA ARTICLES. Introduction. With it a being a week until the Participatory Autism Research Collective (PARC) PDA event (Milton 2018), I…

MATTHEW BOLTON ARTICLE REBUTTAL NOTES.

MATTHEW BOLTON ARTICLE REBUTTAL NOTES. Introduction/ Disclaimer. I have produced these notes as a general response to Matthew Bolton’s article With the silence of a thousand cries: extremes of autistic…

WINTER IS COMING: A CHANGE IN THE PDA DISCOURSE IS IN THE AIR.

WINTER IS COMING: A CHANGE IN THE PDA DISCOURSE IS IN THE AIR. I am aware that my opinions have been influential in causing unrest in some quarters of…

MY CURRENT OPINIONS ON PDA.

MY CURRENT OPINIONS ON PDA. I do not think PDA itself exits. I think Newson was originally seeing autistic persons, which explains why it is has become fashionable to assume…

MARCH 2018 UPDATE TO THE LIST OF PDA ARTICLES.

PDA ARTICLES TIMELINE BY YEAR. YEAR AUTHOR TITLE: CAN BE SHORTENED. JOURNAL. 2003 Newson et al. Pathological demand avoidance syndrome: a necessary distinction within the PDD. Archives of Disease in…