Like some other people on this thread, I recognize in myself all the symptoms listed for the syndrome, but don't have them as bad as some.

An English cartoonist, from Newcastle, named Colin Warneford, was diagnosed with it. He tells his own story in Harvey Pekar's _American Splendour transATLANTIC COMics_ (Dark Horse Comics, 1988). It gives a good idea of what he has to deal with.

I suspect that *all* current terminology for mental difficulties is pretty crude. Some years ago I bought a book called _The Society of Mind_ by Marvin Minsky. I found it unreadable, but it did give me an idea: The human brain is not properly one organ, but maybe a couple of thousand specialized ones that have to manage to work together because they are locked up in the same skull & coupled to the same nervous system. So there are maybe a couple of thousand different ways to be a mental cripple, and everybody is one in at least a couple of dozen ways, and uses other modules to work around the ones that are missing or damaged. If that's the way we are, the notion of normality doesn't make much sense.