Depedia

Depedia, also known as Orchestrated Developmental Disorder is a neurodevelopmental Disorder characterized by abnormal reasoning and relationships with the external world. Symptoms can range from very mild to extremely severe.

Those with Depedia however show strong social skills and good mentalizing, they also tend to be very creative. The condition is considered to be an opposite of Autism, they struggle with the physical world but tend to exhibit good social skills.

Those with Depedia exhibit poor systemizing abilities (see: brain imprint theory) or in the case for Gunter Syndrome, they may present unbalanced cognitive abilities, for example, in the diagnostic criterias, they may present impairments in three areas but exhibit incredible skills in the fourth area.

## Symptoms

A. Significant impairments in intellectual abilities and physical interactions through several context, as manifested by the following, currently or by history:

1)   Impaired organization of relationships between the self and the outside world, ranging, for example; from failure to apply complex logic to the world (e.g., if A is true/false, then B is true/false), to confounding reality, fantasies and vice-versa; to primitive, childish beliefs (e.g., believing in Santa Claus), to magical thinking; to impaired pattern completion; to difficulties understanding cause and effect or vice-versa.

2)   Impaired development of basic visual-temporal skills, ranging for example, from difficulties understanding the concept of object permanence; to poor sense of reversibility; to poor orientation in time and space; to deficits with self-individuation from the world; to repeated A-not-B error and scale error; to intellectual realism; to impaired visuospatial skills and pattern recognition; to partial or complete agnosia.

3)   Impairments in the development of simple cognitive skills, ranging, for example, from poor memory; to deficient executive functioning; to severe deficits in simple mathematical calculations; to slowed down cognitive functioning; to difficulties recognizing self in mirror; to impaired or slowed down (can be efficient) problem-solving abilities

4)   Impairments in the organization of thoughts affecting speech, ranging, for example, from cognitive slippage; to circumstantiality; to tangentiality; to illogical responses; to word salad; or in behavior such as circumstantial behavior (adding unnecessary steps in multistage actions); to tangential behavior (same as circumstantial behavior but the goal is never reached); to disorganized task execution (finishing a multistage action such as getting dressed before starting it); to random, purposeless behaviors.

B. Significant abnormalities of behavior, as manifested by the following, currently or by history:

1)   Stereotyped, repetitive rituals in relation with magical thinking (e.g., buying a specific item to cause a certain event) or tight logic (if A is true/false, then B is false/true).

2)   Apparently excessive or lack of sensitivity to mental stimulus, for example, hearing or seeing things that are considered as thoughts, but possibly confounding them with reality.

3)   Excessive motor rigidity, inflexible resistance to be moved and refusal to move certain parts of the body, or difficulties speaking or spontaneously moving, posture may seem to not follow the laws of gravity.

4)   Excessive, intense attachment with particular objects, to the point of being unable to differentiate oneself from it and there is an intense anguish of separation characterized by feelings of disintegration.

C. Symptoms must occur in developmental period.