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Friend disappears for the entire year except during the 72-hour window surrounding their own birthday, during which they appear with dinner expectations.
Annual. Will not improve.
None. A card by mail is not an acceptable substitute.
Patients with Severe Birthday-Ghosting Syndrome typically present with some or all of the following:
Severe Birthday-Ghosting Syndrome belongs to the Institute's growing taxonomy of behaviors that real medicine has declined to name. It exists, roughly, at the intersection of internet culture, interpersonal friction, and whatever is happening in the lives of our patients. It is fictional and it is everywhere.
Under its Latin label Natalis absentia convenientia, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
Think you have it? Find out what else you might be suffering from at the diagnosis generator. Or browse the full index of afflictions.