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Patient drives a 2024 Honda Odyssey and refers to it exclusively as 'my car.' Has not used the word 'minivan' in two years. Has said 'it's really more of an SUV.' The Odyssey has sliding doors, seats seven, and contains three car seats and a goldfish cracker permanent layer. Their partner has used the word 'minivan' and been corrected.
Permanent. The denial is load-bearing.
None. Sliding-door defense mechanism has activated.
Patients with Chronic Minivan-Driver Identity Denial typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Minivan-Driver Identity Denial 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 Negatio identitatis vehiculi familialis — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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