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Patient owns a 1998 Toyota Supra. Has informed everyone they have ever met, unprompted, that it is JDM — not USDM, not Euro-spec, JDM. Will, at dinner, explain at length why the RHD configuration is 'the correct one.' Has driven the car approximately 2,400 miles since purchase in 2021. The rest of the time it sits under a tarp. The tarp, patient insists, 'lets it breathe.'
Chronic. The defense predates any challenge.
None. The Supra has, somehow, become the personality.
Patients with Pathological JDM Purist Defensiveness typically present with some or all of the following:
Pathological JDM Purist Defensiveness is a pathological 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 Purista japonicus inflexibilis — a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.
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