Pathological demand avoidance: my thoughts on looping effects and commodification of autism

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Woods, R. (2017). Pathological demand avoidance: my thoughts on looping effects and commodification of autism. Disability & Society, 32(5), 753-758. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2017.1308705

Publication date: 31 Mar 2017 Added to AutiHub: 7 Jul 2026 Type: Article Article language: English
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  1. Richard Woods *

Abstract

Hacking suggests autism is a human kind, and has used autism to discuss their evolution over time. Looping effects caused the autism human kind to evolve since 1995, with people identifying with the autism human kind, and the commodification of the autism human kind by the autism industry. Pathological demand avoidance (PDA) was created from the looping effects controlled by the autism industry. This has undermined autism self-advocacy by supporting the medical paradigm of the autism human kind. By refusing to engage with PDA, people of the autism human kind limit the commodification of autism; creating greater emancipation.

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1 / 15 (6.7%) cited references include at least one author identified as autistic.
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