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Patient introduces their cat as 'Phoebe, pronounced FEE-bee, not FOE-bee' to every new person. Corrects, mid-sentence, anyone who says it wrong. Has not, at any point, been misunderstood. The cat does not care either way.
Permanent. Mid-sentence corrections will continue.
None. Pronunciation is the point.
Patients with Catastrophic Pet-Name Pronunciation Insistence typically present with some or all of the following:
This is the Institute's entry for Catastrophic Pet-Name Pronunciation Insistence — a catastrophic condition cataloged for archival purposes and shared for patient use. No prescription exists. No intervention has been shown effective. Recognition is the primary benefit of diagnosis.
Formal name: Nomen animalis articulatio stricta. Not found in the DSM-5 or ICD-11. Found, routinely, in the patient population.
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