What is the psychology behind not wanting to perform a task after someone tells you to do it, even if you were going to do it anyways?
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What you are refering to is called Pathological Demand Avoidance. It is something new and still not fully understood but appears to be associated with autism.
I am autistic and suffer with it. It is frustrating and I don’t know how it works or how to overcome it.
But what I do know is that many times I’ll be asked to do something and a little switch inside my brain just switches to “no, I don’t think I will”.
Even if it’s something I really want to do, I don’t do it.
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