Neurotypical Spectrum Disorder (NSD) Diagnostic Criteria

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As inspired from Chrono's posting in a different forum....

....wouldn't it be great if we wrote our own Neurotypical Spectrum Disorder (NSD) DSM diagnostic criteria? What would be the core traits needed for a diagnosis?

I think the starting point has to be an examination of the prevailing myths, and there are many. Some are mentioned here:
https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=ASD+p ... 8AeYqo3wDA

I saw something like this once. It was an article on "neurotypical disease." Ill try and find it, but we should make up our own! Watching a lot of reality TV and gossiping about others are some of the main traits. AGT doesn't count as reality TV .

Here it is: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Neur ... l_syndrome

Flippin' heck, I must have "neurotypical disorder" then. I am socially needy, instrusive, emotional and easily frustrated.

Oh, my - reading that article, it appears someone has met my mother. I hadn't realized just how severe her neurotypical syndrome is

Oh, yes, I have an addition to make.

People with neurotypical syndrome often have the belief that any mistake made by themselves is completely understandable and forgivable, but if someone else makes the same mistake, that person is horrible and clearly did it on purpose. They will often take extreme measures to divert blame away from themselves. In addition, they have double standards in regards to social behavior. For example, they believe they are perfectly entitled to make shushing gestures or sigh irritably every time a non-neurotypical speaks, but if the non-neurotypical does the same thing, the neurotypical becomes upset. Some people with the disorder also appear to suffer from some form of memory loss. If confronted about such a double standard, they will seem to have no recollection of the incident(s).

This topic reminded me, just for fun

I remember when I was 15 I walked into the town after school with two schoolfriends, and I needed the toilet so my friends promised to wait outside for me. But when I came out they had disappeared. I hung about for a while but they didn't show up so I went up and down the street looking for them. Then I sat on a bench in an easy place to spot, for quite a long while, then suddenly they appeared. They didn't seem to care that they had went off like that, and never explained why or said sorry, and I had the impression they wanted to hang out together without me around, like I was the third wheel.
But then about a week later, in school, the three of us wanted to sneak upstairs during lunchtime, without being seen by a teacher. When the coast was clear me and friend A ran upstairs, but friend B hesitated and hung around, and by then a teacher was coming so me and friend A quickly ran upstairs, unintentionally leaving friend B behind outside on her own. Then during class after lunch ended, friend B came storming upto us yelling, "thanks for waiting for me at lunch! What kind of friends are you??", even though it was obvious we wasn't doing it on purpose. It was her fault for dilly-dallying, and we couldn't come back down because we didn't want to get caught by a teacher. But obviously friend B had forgotten about the day they both ran off while I was in the toilet.