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Patient has assigned an elaborate inner life to their cat Mitzi, including preferred music (indie folk), political opinions (surprisingly centrist), and a long-standing grudge against the upstairs neighbor. Mitzi has not exhibited any of these traits. Mitzi is asleep on a radiator. Mitzi has been asleep on a radiator for six years.
Permanent. The backstory is now canon.
None. Visitors are briefed before entry.
Patients with Advanced Cat Personality Projection typically present with some or all of the following:
Patients diagnosed with Advanced Cat Personality Projection 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 Felis character inventus, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.
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