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I am realizing that I could have PDA

Xinyta

♤Id driven soul | Broken but not Insane☆
I have been read up on it some and I am realizing that my persistent issues with certain aspects of life, could be related to PDA.

Just thinking back to school. To things how I was treated by my parental units. How I have handled, and still handle curveballs in life. Basic daily tasks. It all is chaos for me.

It seems like the there are alot of things I do the bare minimum for. Yet somethings I can go for hours, if I wanted to, figuring out more about them.

Though it then makes me wonder if my tramas made it worse. That I simply will not do things, because it reminds me of how my parents responded. Thus inducing immediate anxiety.
 
I have been read up on it some and I am realizing that my persistent issues with certain aspects of life, could be related to PDA.
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Questions.to think about: Is it just demands that you avoid or could you be avoidant In general, perhaps due to your anxiety? Or are you only.motivated by things you are intensely interested in which could be a low dopamine issue
 
PDA could explain why I have less than zero interest in being in a leadership role, but I don't think so.
 
PDA (and the related APD, Avoidant Personality Disorder) were autism related things I looked into.

I have resorted to some pretty outlandish schemes to get out of doing things. People have told me in the past that if there was an easy way out of something, I would find it. The words "avoid" and "avoidance" were in my autism diagnosis report a few times.

It might be simplifying things, but for now I put everything under the autism umbrella. It makes it all easier to process. I might consider separating things out a bit more in future if it makes more sense.
 
It was two days ago that I saw that there is something called PDA. (I had seen the term before but never looked to see what it means.) It explains a good deal of why my life has been a wreck forever. It's great to see that it has a name; now I need to figure out what to do about it.

PDA is associated with autism and ADHD, both of which I believe to have but haven't gotten diagnosed with yet.

@thejuice, what's the difference between PDA and being generally avoidant? A "demand", according to the articles that I've seen, is any expectation made directly by people, by society and those we impose on ourselves.

@Angular Chap, you were unlikely to get a PDA diagnosis because it's not officially recognized. Any diagnosing is being made "off-label". It's considered a "proposed disorder".
 
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Demand Avoidance also doesn't have to be at the level of Pathological to really cause problems in our daily lives
I found these really helpful to understand how I do or don't process
 

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