Social peculiarity is frequently observed in clients with mental health and substance abuse disorders. However, it lacks a consensus definition and is not a well-delineated clinical entity or syndrome with an established set of descriptive diagnostic criteria. Some mental health clinicians would argue that, while social peculiarity is difficult to define, they know it when they see it. However, a case can also be made that clinically significant social peculiarity is often in the eye of the beholder, and cannot be easily distinguished, in its milder and more subtle forms, from normal variation in eccentric or idiosyncratic behavior, social awkwardness or anxiety, and interpersonal or communication abilities and skills (Gnaulati, 2013).
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