Beth is autistic and has been diagnosed with pathological demand avoidance, meaning she would go to great lengths to avoid situations that filled her with anxiety – one of the prominent symptoms of girls on the autistic spectrum.
She has a condition called pathological demand avoidance syndrome.
When she was made professor of developmental psychology at Nottingham in 1994, she dedicated her inaugural lecture to talking about pathological demand avoidance syndrome (PDA), a subtype of autism she had identified and that is characterised by an avoidance of the ordinary demands of life.
Emily B.: "pathological demand avoidance" can be real, I guess, but often its invocation really means "I don't understand exposure anxiety". Mildred: Neurotypicals go to great lengths to avoid situations that make them anxious.
Beth, another student at Limpsfield Grange, has been diagnosed with pathological demand avoidance, a sub-set of autism, whereby she deals with her fears and creates a false sense of control through attempting to spurn authority.
For example, the use of further investigations may be influenced by patient demand, avoidance of risk or giving a patient 'peace of mind' rather than clinical need (1707).
The Ohio law, by contrast, he said, "demands the avoidance of any unnecessary risk of pain and, as well, any unnecessary expectation by the condemned person that his execution may be agonizing or excruciatingly painful".
The previous Section points to three areas of intervention depending on the source of the labor market problem: the stimulation of labor demand, the avoidance of long-term unemployment, and the elimination of educational mismatch.
If spontaneously shown (i.e., without any evidence for learning), EP may be explained most easily (and cognitively least demanding) by avoidance of the wrong option [4].
It has also been suggested that pathogenic bacteria use cross-talk encoded memory to balance the demands of immune avoidance with a sequential, compartment to compartment infection lifecycle [8], [9].
Consequently, visual signals often reflect the competing demands of predator avoidance (camouflage) and sexual communication with conspecifics, as shown in classic work on guppies (Endler 1978, 1980).
