Patient scratches areas of their own body that should, under no circumstances, be scratched in shared public view. Appears entirely unaware of this. Has done it at a funeral, at a promotion-announcement dinner, and during a parent-teacher conference. The hand, apparently, goes where the hand goes.
Permanent. Self-awareness has not arrived and is not expected.
Untreatable. Companions are encouraged to walk slightly ahead.
Patients with Advanced Itch Displacement Syndrome typically present with some or all of the following:
Advanced Itch Displacement Syndrome was added to the Institute catalog in response to a pattern our clinicians kept seeing. The pattern did not have a real name. This is the real name now. Everything about this entry is made up, except the behavior.
The Institute has assigned this condition the Latin binomial Pruritus locationis inadmissibilis — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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