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Spouse hears the words 'dinner' and 'pub' from across the house. Does not hear direct, repeated requests made from the next seat.
Permanent. Hearing test comes back clear.
None. Volume does not help.
Patients with Chronic Selective-Hearing Spouse Syndrome typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Selective-Hearing Spouse 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 Audio coniugalis selectivus — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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