Neurotypical Personality Disorder

Why Psychforums does not have a forum for this disorder is beyond me, if it is very common: almost 98% of people has it! Is not that alarming? I request a Sticky Post.

DSM-IV code 301.27: Neurotypical Personality Disorder

Description
A highly contagious and endemic personality disorder affecting most of modern human population, recognized for what is commonly called “The Herd Mentality”. The majority of individual affected begin presenting the symptoms at an early age (around 12-14 years old) and they can suffer from the disorder for the rest of their lives, mostly fueled by external stimuli like TV and magazines.

Diagnostic criteria and Symptoms
* Blindly follows social conventions without even pondering if those are good for their being or even useful at all. This is the most determinant factor for diagnosis.

* Can’t be alone for a period of one hour or more without feeling depressed or bored, for this reason needs constant communication with their fellows individuals. This strong need has carried to the invention of phenomenons such as cellphones and facebook.

* Needs to attend to social gatherings on discrete periods of time to reinforce the need of belonging to a group. The elapsed time between gatherings differ between individuals, ranging from one hour to one week, at most. The most common form of these gathering is the so called “party”, although is documented that others exists. May this individual be shunned from his/her group for any cause (for example, not dressing the appropriate manner) they may suffer from, but not limited to: severe depression, irritability and/or substance abuse.

* Is prone to unnecessary small talk. Some of those talks may appear suddenly and/or randomly.

* Suffers from ranging levels of Hypocrisy, a concomitant disorder that makes the individual do fake smiles, lie and/or cheat on a constant basis and try to get above other on their imaginary “social ladder” without caring for their peers on the process.

* The mentioned “social ladder”, a delusion that some individuals have power over others based on amount of money, clothing, skin color or other perceive factors.

* Gets heavily exited over trivial things like World Football Cups, religious gatherings or the sight of another neurotypical individual they consider “charismatic”, like a singer or actor.

* Have a constant and inexorable drive to fulfil their needs and obtain pleasure on all fields like travels, multiple sexual partners, heavy drinking and other auto-destruction activities.

* Low or average IQ. Despite that, these individuals have the false notion that everything they do, conceive or create is the work of a real genius.

* Some studies show that the above criteria is highly linked with another disorder called “Ego”, which many of the affected patients present on variable degrees.

* Suffers from a severe delusion that all of the above alarming symptoms are "normal" and that any other individual that does not present them is mentally ill, unstable or suffer from a disorder and needs medication and therapy ASAP.

Prevalence
Studies shows almost 98% of modern population suffer from this traumatic disorder, most common specially on globalized sectors.

Treatment
The only cure known for this disorder is taking the individual to Solitary Confinement for a period of minimum 5 years so the “social link” can be destroyed and finally they can develop self-awareness and have and value their own opinions.

Differential Diagnosis
Individual on drugs or high levels of alcohol.

I've seen something similar to this before (worded differently). Its always good for a laugh

Ops, sorry if this exists already, I didn't look through all the pages of this forum, just came with the idea and posted it.

Thats ok.
This link was posted some time ago
http://isnt.autistics.org/

Its presented quite differently to what you wrote. Both are rather amusing.

Sefsermak, thanks so much, enjoyed it a lot!

I have always wondered why we Aspergerians should feel like the out casts, I don't. Clearly the NT's are deficient when one considers their in-ability toward self-actualization (i.e., the herd mentality). They can only rarely be circumspect enough to view themselves in an objective way and even then only upon the even rarer occasion that they are able to pull themselves away from their group or group activity.

The fact that you pointed that out in particular makes me feel glad (once again) that I am the way I am. I wasn't always glad about it, but over the past 10 years or so, I began to realize that I was still able to grow, change, and improve myself while my NT counterparts seem to be stuck at the same way they were at around the age of 20 or so. Completely dependant on what is the current fad or what-not, too afraid to "break from the herd", as you say.

I have heard other AS people say that this is a "snobby" or "elitest" attitude, but a trend toward self actualization is a benefit of AS, without it, I think more of us would go mad, perhaps it is a defense mechanism? I dunno, either that, or just a natural part of the AS brain, along with quick reflexes and clumsiness--ha-ha!

I got this PM from a NT a few days ago: (excerpt)

i had been wondering about this illness LOL, my friend abbie has it.. and i always wondered why they say aspergers are assholes?

I replied (excerpt)

just as with anybody else, aspergers have their share of regular assholess and nice persons.

This explains why my mom talks too much. Lol.

low to average IQ.

Oh that's bad. Makes me glad that my asperger's make me have a good iq level. And the good thing is that I can easily make myself smarter because I learn quickly. My guitar teacher says I'm a fast learner. and I do recognize this because you can teach me anything about music and I easily pick it up.

Yes, the ability to learn doesnt seem to end at the age of 25 as it does with NT people. Nice...I just started grad school at the age of 41 and I am learning just as quickly and easily (if not more so) than my 20-something counterparts. I feel like my life has just started at this age and my 40-something friends act as if their's is just beginning to end.

HopeSprings wrote:Yes, the ability to learn doesnt seem to end at the age of 25 as it does with NT people. Nice...I just started grad school at the age of 41 and I am learning just as quickly and easily (if not more so) than my 20-something counterparts. I feel like my life has just started at this age and my 40-something friends act as if their's is just beginning to end.

I feel that way too.It is only now [at 43] that I am beginning to put everything together.Perhaps it is due to a greater understanding of my strengths and weaknesses.I know my limitations but can work around them and use my strengths.

I think it has something to do with our society starting accept autism and starting to understand us. We got much more information on it then we used to. That's why they're making more gluten free items because it is said that autisic and aspies feel better with a gluten free diet.
I'm only 16 and still learning my strengths and weeknesses.