Diagnosing Cruella De Vil.
A. Qualitative impairment in social interaction,
as manifested by at least two of the following:
1) marked impairment in the use of multiple nonverbal behaviours such
as eye-to-eye gaze, facial expression, body postures, and gestures
to regulate social interaction;
I don't believe so but how would I know if she meets that part or not. I can't read body language myself very well or don't understand it.
2) failure to develop peer relationships appropriate to developmental
level;
Yep. No friends, is by herself even though she has employees and servants but those aren't peers. They're her workers.
3) a lack of spontaneous seeking to share enjoyment, interests or
achievments with other people (eg: by a lack of showing, bringing,
or pointing out objects of interest to other people);
Defently. She is not interested in other people and cares about them and she is only into herself.
4) lack of social or emotional reciprocity.
I'd say yes because she doesn't care about other people so she will not respond to their emotions appropiataly and I don't think she is very social except when it comes to business.
B. Restricted repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behaviour, interests,
and activities, as manifested by at least one of the following:
1) encompassing preoccupation with one or more stereotyped and
restricted patterns of interest that is abnormal either in intensity
or focus;
Yes. She is obsessed with fur and is obsessed with spots in 102 Dalmatians.
2) apparently inflexible adherence to specific, nonfunctional routines
or rituals;
Yes. She wants everything her way.
3) stereotyped and repetitive motor mannerisms (eg: hand or finger
flapping or twisting, or complex whole-body movements);
No
4) persistent preoccupation with parts of objects
No
C. The disturbance causes clinically significant impairment in social,
occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
I'd say so.
D. There is no clinically significant general delay in language
(eg: single words used by age 2 years, communicative phrases used by
age 3 years).
I don't think she had a speech delay unless she had hearing loss or was born deaf or had another medical problem that would cause her to be speech delayed.
E. There is no clinically significant delay in cognitive development or in
the development of age-appropriate self-help skills, adaptive behaviour
(other than social interaction), and curiosity about the environment in
childhood.
Yes.
F. Criteria are not met for another specific Pervasive Developmental
Disorder, or Schizophrenia.
Yes. She isn't a schizo and she doesn't have Rhett's or childhood dingintive (sp) dysfuntion and she doesn't meet the autistic criteria.
My diagnoses for her is Baspie.
