Patient, on any walk, interrupts their own sentence mid-word to announce 'FLUFFY DOG' to their companion. The companion, now conditioned, also turns. The dog is seven meters away. Patient is beaming. The conversation does not recover for 14 seconds.
Chronic. Sightings occur approximately every nine minutes.
None. The announcement is involuntary.
Patients with Pathological Fluffy-Dog Sighting Broadcast typically present with some or all of the following:
Pathological Fluffy-Dog Sighting Broadcast 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 Proclamatio canis lanosus publica β fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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