Common disorders that impair social skills?

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I will make a list where social problems are common, and then a list where it's common that people can't interpret non-verbal or verbal social cues. I have Attention Deficit Hyperacitivity Disorder myself, and I have social problems.

The parties that have social issues:
1. Autism
2. Asperger's Syndrome
3. Tourette's Syndrome
4. Personality Disorder
5. Bipolar Disorder
6. Non-verbal learning disorder
7. Any form of a sensory disorder
8. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
9. Clinical Depression
10. Cerebral Palsy
11. Intellectual Disability
12. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
13. Schizophrenia
14. Multiple Personality Disorder
15. Oppositional Defiant Disorder
16. Down's Syndrome
17. Emotional Disturbance
18. Anxiety Disorder
19. Synesthesia
20. Blindness
21. Deafness
22. Fragile X
23. Diabetes
24. Epilepsy
25. Bipolar Depression
26. Bipolar Two Disorder
27. Shaken Baby Syndrome
28. Any physical condition
29. Any condition that causes a speech impediment
30. Any learning disability

Disorders that impact ones ability to read non-verbal social cues:
1. Autism
2. Asperger's Syndrome
3. Intellectual Disability
4. Personality Disorder
5. Down's Syndrome (in severe cases)
6. Schizophrenia
7. Sensory disorders
8. Non-verbal learning disorder
9. Shaken Baby Syndrome
10. Fragile X

So this means that Autistic people are not the only ones who are unable to read social cues and to have social problems, which means that there's nothing to be ashamed of really.

I don't see Avoidant Personality Disorder on there but I'm guessing your No. 4 should suffice.

how do diabetes and social disorders go together?

People with all Personality Disorder have social issues which is why I didn't include all of them.

People with Diabetes are often obese or overly scrawny, and that's what would cause social problems and bullying.

oh.

Brain damage cause social problems too.

i strongly suspect that social problems can cause brain damage, also.

How?

Oh I know of another one. Incontinence and child abuse.

via depression, which has been proven to cause brain damage [and heart damage as well] via elevated levels of cortisol [a stress hormone] for extended periods.

5. Bipolar Disorder
[...]
25. Bipolar Depression
26. Bipolar Two Disorder

I would suggest to reduce those points to just no. 5 "Bipolar Disorder"

I knew that all along.

You missed out Mental Retardation, unless there are different forms of that what you might have already mentioned in your list.

Also Alzheimer's, although I don't know if that counts as just a disease and not an actual disorder. But I work at a care home where most of the residents have common forms of Dementia, and they are more socially impaired than I am (obviously in all different ways). Some have even lost their ability to socialise, and just sit there, constantly locked in their own world. Working with people with Dementia is such an interesting job.

This is not one condition, it's several. Some impact on reading nonverbal cues and others don't. (By the way, lumping PDs together is a pet peeve of mine, because the association between borderline, narcissistic and antisocial PDs and violence ends up stigmatizing the other PDs as well.)

He put intellectual disability.