Quick Answer Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) — increasingly referred to in research as Extreme Demand Avoidance (EDA) — is a profile most commonly found in autistic children, characterized by an intense, anxiety-driven need to avoid e…
Quick Answer Between 50% and 80% of autistic children experience significant sleep problems — and research shows this is not primarily a behavioral issue. The autistic brain has measurable differences in melatonin production, circadian rh…
Quick Answer Autistic girls are diagnosed, on average, 1.5 years later than autistic boys — not because their autism is less present, but because they are more likely to mask it. Masking, or camouflaging, is the neurologically costly proc…