how to keep on track when everyone is demanding

As we develop in this society we find can be motivated in many ways, including being self-motivated. I will write more on this in another blog but it is important to understand that because our needs vary, so does our motivation. These needs get more complex and although all humans have common human needs, they vary in intensity and proportion for every human. People are born intrinsically (internally without influence from others) motivated to meet their human needs. In order for a human being to do anything, they have to be motivated. I will also help to explain the use of the word “pathological” because, having had many discussions with all kinds of people, including PDAers themselves, most don’t even understand what the term “pathological” means in this context. Once I have explored each of these in turn, I will describe the two other forms of demand avoidance: Neurodivergent (or Autistic) Demand Avoidance and Pathological Demand Avoidance. each of these things are neurological and each of them impact neurotypical people and neurodivergent people to different extents. There are three factors here that I can see, motivation, anxiety and executive function. We put things off, get others to do things for us or just fail to do the thing entirely, We all procrastinate rather than doing the thing we know we are supposed to be doing, often because it is hard and we aren’t sure how to start, or because we are exhausted, or because we are afraid we will do it badly, or because we genuinely don’t want to do the thing. What very few people seem to understand is how this behaviour can ever be pathological.įrom my experience and understanding all human beings experience demand avoidance.

They are also right that many autistic people avoid some demands to a greater extent than their neurotypical peers. The thing is they are right that all humans do experience demand avoidance.

How to keep on track when everyone is demanding