PDA stands for Pathological Demand Avoidance or Pervasive Drive for Autonony. It is a behavioral profile of autistic people and means they have a nervous system threat response with anything out of their control- other people, environments, their own bodies. Unfortunately it is usually only mom (or mom and dad) meeting these needs, and mom and dad are likely burned out, struggling with their own health conditions, needing to work and maintain the household, newly discovered neurodivergent, and d