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Acute Screenless Phantom Scroll

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ACUTE
Diagnosis
Acute Screenless Phantom Scroll
Digitus fictivus scrollus
Clinical description

Patient's thumb moves in the empty air. The phone is in the other room. The muscle does not need the device. The device has trained the muscle.

Prognosis

Motion persists without equipment.

Recommended treatment

None. Awareness only worsens symptoms.

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Common symptoms

Patients with Acute Screenless Phantom Scroll typically present with some or all of the following:

What is this?

Patients diagnosed with Acute Screenless Phantom Scroll present with a cluster of recognizable behaviors we have, on reflection, decided to name. The condition is fictional. The behaviors, unfortunately, are not. Someone in your life is showing at least two of them right now.

The Institute's taxonomic entry lists it as Digitus fictivus scrollus, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.

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