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Use this when requests, expectations, transitions, or ordinary tasks seem to trigger intense avoidance, negotiation, distress, or rapid loss of regulation in a PDA-like or strongly demand-sensitive pattern for you or someone you support. Think about your average week over the last month.
How often do ordinary requests feel bigger or more threatening than they look from the outside?
Think getting dressed, leaving the house, answering a question, or stopping an activity.
How often do you need to delay, negotiate, distract, joke, or avoid in order to cope with the demand?
This can look strategic from the outside, but it may be a stress response rather than simple oppositional behaviour.
How much does direct language or pressure make the situation worse?
Examples include repeated prompts, countdowns, fixed instructions, or visible urgency.
How quickly can a manageable task turn into panic, shutdown, or full refusal once the pressure is felt?
This is about how rapidly regulation drops once the demand feels unsafe or trapping.
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