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:arrow: Excessive Gumsnobbery Disorder
:arrow: Gossip Personality Disorder
:arrow: Overuse Of The Words "Shut Up" Disorder :wink:

Those are some of my ideas for names. Here are some symptoms of Excessive Gumsnobbery Disorder:

A. seemingly inactive sense of smell
1. I-always-smell-good delusion (clear unawareness of the smells of objects and belief that they all smell good, unless very strong ; use of powerful perfume or hair spray)
2. sensory overloads too typical for autistics to have (i.e. skunk, feet, etc.)
3. denial of odors coming from self or friends (i.e. "gum smells good")

:!: Mich :?:

What about Sport Obsession Disorder? or Overactive Imagination Personality Disorder in which its sufferers attribute motives and moods in a seemingly random manner to people with AS.

One day I'd like to write a pop psychology book "Achieving emotional independence". I could probably make a fortune.

Very neat!

How about "Ambitious Destructive disorder" a.k.a. Cutting off one's Nose to Spite one's Face disorder"? = a tendency to destroy another's work, rather than let a "weirdo" get the credit, when the profit would have actually gone to the wrecker in any case!

Then there's "Reality Deficit Disorder"?

and "Plain Speech Phobia"?

I have heard that Plain Speech Phobia is an occupational risk for politicians. I wonder if pollies talk evasive nonsense to their friends and family.

Would it be a fair comment that people who suffer from Neurotypical Disorder have a tragic vulnerability to peer pressure and advertising?

Of course I'm staying. Just not at the OCC...

Neurotypical Disorder (NTD)

Neurotypical Disorder (NTD) is a neurological condition commonly affecting individuals who are not on the autistic spectrum. Many theories have been put forward to explain the bizarre behaviours and beliefs of people with NTD. The numerous and complex cognitive impairments of NTD patients cannot be described in a document of this size. I would like to propose a model of a triad of impairments; Interpersonal Compulsion (IC), egocentricity and an impaired Theory of Minds (T O M), to explain the disordered personalities of patients with NTD.

Sufferers of NTD compulsively seek interpersonal experiences in the form of social events or casual meetings, in fact any contact with another human being is seen by the neurotypical patient as an opportunity for creating an interpersonal emotional experience. The drive to satisfy their emotional needs pervades every aspect of their lives. Simple telephone messages or financial transactions with supermarket cashiers are hijacked to meet this social compulsion. IC impairs the NTD sufferer's ability to live independently and maintain employment, as IC commonly causes NTD patients to waste time during working hours gossiping and chatting instead of productive activity. IC can also impair the NTD patient's ability to maintain personal relationships as they may become depressed or resentful if their voracious emotional needs are not met by spouses, family or friends. NTD patients may even turn to their own children to satisfy their emotional needs.

Neurotypical individuals display Theory of Minds deficits. NTD sufferers are unable to abstractly theorise that others have intellectual capacity, emotions or humanity, instead NTD patients rely solely on non-verbal and verbal expressive displays and performances by others as the basis of their beliefs about the internal world of others. NTD sufferers are unable to recognise the humanity of others who do not frequently share or demonstrate social/emotional characteristics.

The egocentric nature of neurotypical individuals can be observed in their insistence that all people who they meet act in an engaging and attentive manner towards them. NTD sufferers can become angry or resentful when others are not as socially oriented as they themselves are. This insistence on sameness and conformity is possibly another manifestation of neurotypical egocentricity.

Egocentricity, Interpersonal Compulsion and Theory of Minds deficits account for the neurotypical patient's needs for constant reassurance and social interaction. These needs constitute a considerable drain on the resources of family members and the wider community.


Associate Professor Lili Marlene
Department of Psuedopsychology
University of Central Suburbia
Southern Aspergalia

Very amusing, Trixdrew! Maybe we should start some kind charity for this "Neurotypicl Disorder"?

No offence to the NTs here, but I'm much happier having something I can pronounce!

Plus (apart from the question of losing weight for health reasons, which would be her business to figure out if that were needed) there are many overweight famous singers out there.  Even sometimes they win American Idol and all that.

Funny tangent, or at least I think so:
The other day I was talking about autism with my independent study students (the course is spanish 3rd semester, but i like to include some "general human awareness" stuff just to spice things up.

And they seemed to think that the trend towards texting people instead of phoning them was a sign of the whole society becoming 'more autistic'.

I donno, it made sense to me.

Here is a ... what is the word for humour when it's coming out of deep disappointment with things as they are?  Satire?

Anyway it's along the lines of the ISNT site and this thread:

http://www.geocities.com/ettinashee/Pers...tacks.html

Hey, is it a sign that I am not a proper autistic if I can't write DSM-IV style dxs?  Or could I put it down to the trauma of having lived a childhood deprived of medicalization and psychobabble?

...

OK, maybe I am old, but I see an incongruity here.

PS:  Just messing with you. (oops, I think that's a southern phrase I have picked up down here!)
:wink:

Soccer Freak, it's OK to be illogical once in a while.  I think.  

PS: I join you in disliking nascar ...
I dislike it almost as much as I enjoy non-standard english (^_^)

I do think that people have to right to use a dialect in conversation if that's what feels comfortable to them.  Or not to use one, if standard English is what feels comfortable to them.

Of course, there are places and times for dialects, ie: when you are talking with (or writing to) people who will all understand the same dialect.

Personal example: I should avoid resorting to Spanglish in a meeting with my superiors (none of whom are bilingual), because it is not communication if you are not communicating.

But I use spanglish with my husband, my bilingual friends, my students... I would maybe even use some Spanglish in a meeting if we had a Spanish department where everyone was bilingual and everyone would understand what I said.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonics

[below I mention my personal observation that relates to some things mentioned in that article:]

A lot of Black people that I know because they are my students have one way of talking for class and business and generally for dealing with people who don't speak the same dialect, and then revert to their dialect when they are with friends or family.

The same goes for a lot of my White students who talk "country".  Although I notice maybe less adaptation to standard English for class among the White students.  
Perhaps this is because they are used to their White Southern teachers understanding them and being able to "talk country" also?  I am not sure.

Perhaps in a class where the students and the teacher were all Black Southerners, they would talk dialect, at least some of the time.  I will have to ask my neighbor (teacher whose office is next to mine) if this ever happens in her Math classes.

My mother is an English tutor at the same college where I teach, and she commonly has to explain to students (of both races, and possibly others as well) that we have to write a style of English that is much different from how we might talk with our friends.  The thing is, at a tech college, we have a lot of students who haven't had a lot of academic experience and so they have to learn this stuff that others might have learned earlier.  But they might be really intelligent, and just not have the academic background yet, so they have to catch up.

Then of course you have quite a large number of Black students, who (whether for reasons of regional origin, social class, or personal choice, or other reason that I can't think of just now), speak standard English.  Sometimes they get accused of talking like White people, which I think is kind of mean on the part of the person's friend who said that, because really anyone can talk standard English if that's what they learned (either originally, or on purpose later).

I have a hard time sometimes going back to what was my first language, standard American English, because I spend so much time in Spanish or Spanglish.  But I try to do so in monolingual English situations, otherwise not everyone will understand me.


(are we supposed to capitalize races in English? I can never remember)