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Patient's middle child has the rare ability to enter a room without being perceived. Was, factually, at the dinner table last night. Was also in three photographs from the birthday party. Patient's brain, somehow, still loses count when setting out plates. The middle child has not complained. The middle child has stopped expecting to be counted. This has become, in its way, their personality.
Chronic. The invisibility compounds annually.
None. Photographing them deliberately helps, briefly.
Patients with Chronic Middle Child Invisibility typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Middle Child Invisibility is a chronic behavioral condition cataloged by the Institute. It is not recognized by the DSM-5, the ICD-11, or any existing diagnostic framework — and will not be, because it is not a real condition. It is, however, observed in the population with alarming frequency.
In the Institute's formal nomenclature, this condition is catalogued under the Latin binomial Filius medius obscurus — a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.
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