Patient demands, on every FaceTime call with their sister, to 'see the baby' — the baby being their sister's cat Luigi. The sister holds Luigi to the camera. Luigi is visibly uninterested. Patient baby-talks Luigi for 90 seconds. The sister's actual human children have never received this treatment.
Chronic. Every call, same format.
None. Luigi is the call's purpose.
Patients with Advanced Pet-Voice FaceTime Demand typically present with some or all of the following:
Advanced Pet-Voice FaceTime Demand 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 Videocolloquium animalis petitio — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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