Autism – Page 5 – Rational Demand Avoidance

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.

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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…

AN OPEN LETTER TO ICD11 PRODUCTION TEAM.

Dear Dr Robert Jakob, Solvejg Bang, MD, Professor Naoko Tajima, Dr William Ghali and Mr Ulrich Vogel. This is an open letter to address an ongoing petition seeking for…