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Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.

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Demand Avoidance(also: Pathological Demand Avoidance, PDA, Persistent Drive for Autonomy)
An inner resistance to perceived demands — even self-imposed ones — that can lead to inability to start, change, or complete tasks. Demand avoidance is associated with an autism profile sometimes called Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) in the UK, and more recently reframed by…

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