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Patient was walking across a perfectly flat sidewalk at a normal pace. The ground was level. There was no obstacle. Patient tripped anyway. Did the emergency six-step recovery jog that fools no one. Glanced backward as if checking what they tripped on, for the benefit of an audience. There was nothing to check on. There was nothing there.
Chronic. Activates disproportionately when someone is watching.
None. The backward-glance recovery is the symptom, not the treatment.
Patients with Advanced Tripped-On-Air Syndrome typically present with some or all of the following:
Advanced Tripped-On-Air 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 Lapsus nihili publica — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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