Diaspasia

Diaspasia is a serious neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulties with social interactions, repeititive behaviors and other characteristic symptoms.

Criterias
A. Persistent impairments in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts, as manifested by the following, currently or by history (examples are illustrative, not exhaustive, see text):


 * 1) Impairments in social-emotional     reciprocity, ranging, for example, from reduced sharing of interests,     emotions and affect; to reduced give-and-take mechanism; to failure to     initiate or respond to social interactions.
 * 2) Impairments in the     comprehension of nonverbal communication, ranging, for example, from     deficient usage and comprehension of gestures; to delayed usage and     comprehension of other nonverbal behaviors.
 * 3) Mild or severe impairments in     the comprehension of profound emotional states, and a persistent lack of     empathy towards others except with a peculiar attachment figure (see B.3)
 * 4) Mild language retardation.

B. Intense, extreme sense of insecurity and lack of sense of power, as manifested by at least three of the following:


 * 1) Belief as if oneself was the     center of the world, privileged or as if others were just no more than     just mere mindless creatures, or the belief that one has special powers.
 * 2) Insistence on rules, fixated     obsession with imaginary, exaggerated versions of unwritten rules, fear of     being criticized or attacked if the rule is broken (e.g., being called a     “pig” if eating too much, being attacked by the police)
 * 3) Extreme, intense if not profound     attachment with a particular character or caregiver (e.g., intense fear of     the character or caregiver being placed in violent, sexual or ridiculous     situations or considering the character or caregiver as “too perfect” for     this world to even exist).
 * 4) The outside world and other     people seem profoundly confusing, as well as dull and lacking in any sense     or feeling as if one was not part of the world.

C. Symptoms must be present in the early developmental period (but may not become fully manifest until social demands exceed limited capacities or may be masked by learned strategies in later life).

D. Symptoms cause clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of current functioning.

E. These disturbances are not better explained by intellectual disability (intellectual developmental disorder), autism spectrum disorder or global developmental delay.