Social impairments

Socioasthenia is a major symptom of several developmental disorders and psychological disturbances, such as autism, Asperger’s, PDD-NOS, personality disorders, learning disabilities, long-term effects of social neglect, schizophrenia, brain damage, and other socially impairing disorders (e.g. NVLD, RAD) that is characterized by social difficulties and/or moral stunting caused by a cluster of traits amongst the following: Those social difficulties can cause important problems in some or all aspects of a person's life. There are several types of therapy that can improve social skills.
 * Obliviousness to social cues, such as body language and “signs”
 * Failure to reciprocate social interaction, or inappropriate responses
 * Difficulty attributing mental states to others, sometimes as well as understanding one’s own (impaired theory of mind)
 * Inability to form and/or maintain stable relationships or appropriately pass through stages of a relationship (e.g. revealing romantic feelings too quickly to a co-worker), no matter the context of the relationship (professional, casual, intimate, etc.)
 * Inappropriate and awkward body language and/or manners of speech
 * Difficulty expressing one’s own emotions in a clear way
 * Alexithymia
 * Difficulty understanding the social context of language
 * Lack of external social and/or moral awareness that is considered abnormal for one's chronological age (such as trends, common sense, morality, pop culture, sexual knowledge, basic social norms)
 * Refusal to self-actualize
 * Being oblivious to rejection or being ridiculized
 * Failure to 'bond' with humans
 * Preference to bond with animals
 * Childishness (or “Peter Pan Syndrome”)
 * Poor social skills in general
 * Failure to deceive or manipulate, or being too manipulative
 * Lack of remorse, guilt or shame
 * Poor self-awareness
 * Abusive, co-dependent or stormy relationships
 * Egocentrism – or perceived egocentrism
 * Affective disturbances, such as a restricted, unpredictable or exaggerated affect that is ‘inappropriate’ to the context of a situation
 * An “odd” sense of fashion or appearance
 * Poor empathy
 * Being in “one’s own world”, or detached from society
 * Lack of social drive or interest in other people
 * Severe social anxiety
 * Mistrust of others
 * Interpersonal preference towards younger or developmentally more immature peers
 * Social developmental delays
 * Major difficulties with the opposite sex, or any other sexually preferred gender (sexual relationships)
 * Deep commitment issues
 * Overfriendliness or inappropriately affectionate behavior
 * Social inhibition
 * Lack of boundaries, or boundaries too rigid (e.g. aversion to being touched)
 * Poor self-control
 * Poor eye contact, or too much eye contact
 * Social avoidance
 * Failure to see “gray zones” (immature morality, seeing in black and white morals)
 * Tendency to withdraw or remain partially or fully into inner world
 * Vivid and rich inner world
 * General inattentiveness of social surroundings (especially seen in severe autism and schizoid personality disorder)
 * Impairments in executive functioning, organization and planning, especially involving social skills
 * Failure to accept responsibility
 * Projection of one's inner world onto others