About Brook

Brook Madera has a following of over 22,000 as No Pressure PDA, and established a U.S.-based nonprofit that hosts an online facebook PDA Community serving 20,000+ members. She previously held the title of lived-experience consultant for PDA North America, and gave presentations at the 2024 and 2025 PDA North American conferences.

Her particular areas of expertise are in helping children and adults through autistic/PDA burnout, parenting PDA with siblings, helping differentiate PDA from other kinds of demand avoidance, and troubleshooting when other support may be needed for common co-occuring conditions that come with PDA.

Brook lives with her three PDA boys in Oregon and has a B.A. in Religious Studies, and a M.A. in Human Services Counseling.

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Past Speaking Events

2022

PDA Space Summit Presenter

2023

PDA Space Summit co-presenter with Sally Cat

2024

PDA North America Conference speaker

2025

PDA North America Conference speaker

Low Demand Parenting Summit with Amanda Diekman

The Insider Guide to PDA

In this essential primer, PDAers Sally Cat and Brook Madera explain what PDA is, how it manifests, and what you can do to minimise its impact. They explore its interaction with other forms of neurodivergence, potential misdiagnosis as a multitude of other conditions and disorders, and how it actually feels in reality. They also highlight the positives of PDA life, as shared by other PDAers and their loved ones.

Whether you're a PDAer yourself, or know one and want to support them, this Insider Guide will help you understand what PDA is and how to live with it.

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No Pressure PDA Podcast