Critter... you are in love with making annotated screen shots for everyone.
How about you use your love of annotated screen shots, to make one of a Form 1040X, and show everyone, exactly how they should fill out that form in order to amend their STATUS, from non-filer to filer.
I read, the same IRS text that you highlighted. The trouble is that the Form 1040X has no provision on it to "amend" a STATUS... even though the IRS instructions say that this form CAN be used for this purpose. As a practical matter, it can not.
But please... you have posted this same post many many times in multiple posts, denigrating and insulting TT users who made this "non-filer" filing error.
So please... use your screen shot annotating skills and enthusiasm and show everyone here exactly how they would go about doing what you ... and the IRS are professing is the right way to go about this.
Show us a sample Form 1040X filled out the way you would submit this form if you were in the situation that all these people are in. And see if you can do it without insulting people. The other readers aren't responding to your insults very favorably.
