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• Yo, yo, yo, check it out," said PJ, with enough hand gestures that any deaf person watching would have thought he had ASL Tourette's syndrome

  Christopher Moore

  Pjs, Hands, Gestures

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• Sometimes educators suffer from the "I already do that" syndrome. In those cases, we feel inadequate if we admit we have a distance to go as learners of our craft.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Distance, Suffering, Crafts

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome.

  Kristen Schaal

  Funny, Loneliness, Humor

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• When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

  Charles A. Murray

  Greatness, Europe, Ideas

  Charles A. Murray (2006). “In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State”, Aei Press

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• Savant syndrome is not a disorder in the same way as autism is a disorder or dementia is a disorder. Savant syndrome are some conditions that are superimposed and grafted on to some underlying disability. So savant syndrome is not a disease or disorder in and of itself. It is a collection of characteristics, or symptoms, or behaviors that have grafted on to the underlying disability.

  Darold Treffert

  Autism, Disease, Way

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

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• I think actors have a greater responsibility when doing comedy. It's as easy as anything to get cheap laughs, but that's not the idea at all. "The slight trip syndrome," we call it. With tragedy one can get away with things a bit more because audiences don't always know how to react.

  Peter Bowles

  Responsibility, Thinking, Ideas

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• It's remarkable she [Venus Williams] plays at all, given her Sjögren's syndrome [an autoimmune disorder that can cause joint pain]. She's back, winning tournaments. She didn't allow society to tell her, "You have this disease; you can't do that anymore." I look at her, like, "She's not playing at 100 percent. You are. You don't have excuses." Knowing what she went through helped me try to be a more positive person.

  Serena Williams

  Pain, Winning, Play

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think you have a case of either 'testitis' or 'I Didn't Do My Homework Syndrome'. It's common in the Spring.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Spring, Thinking, Common

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• I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.

  Chris Burke

  People, Role Models, Trying

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• It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it."

  Rene Descartes

  Hate, Care, Seduction

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• The new book by Nafeez Ahmed, based on very extensive and deep research, is by far the best on the 9/11 syndrome. Articulating and documenting what many feel, and empowering them into action, the book will have an impact on entrenched US empire elites unwilling and unable to take it on. Votes of thanks to Ahmed, and to Interlink!

  Johan Galtung

  Book, Impact, Empowering

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• God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.

  Muhammad Ali

  Parkinson's, Show Me, Shows

  "'Twelve Rounds to Glory' rhymes Ali's life" by Regan McMahon, www.sfgate.com. January 27, 2008.

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• We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.

  Aga Khan IV

  Trying, Together, Looks

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• This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that resulted in the Vietnam syndrome in the first place.

  Karl Marlantes

  War, Victory, Vietnam

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.66, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• With relationships, I always had a reason why some time in the future would be better for me than it was that day. When I was fat, I thought I'd feel pretty when I was thin, and when I was thin, I thought I'd be happier if I was more toned and muscular and had more money to look more coordinated. I wasn't comfortable in my own skin unless there was a man there to tell me just how radiant that skin looked. I was a victim of low self-esteem and had the Soon syndrome bad. I was running toward a brighter future, unaware of the mirages I'd created in the distance.

  Stephanie Klein

  Running, Self Esteem, Distance

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• I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.

  Donald Glover

  Book, Kids, Aspergers

  "GQ&A: Donald Glover". Interview with Andy Morris, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. March 29, 2012.

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• Exploring Feelings for Young Children with High-Functioning Autism or Asperger's Disorder: The STAMP Treatment Manual offers practical recommendations and creative practices that will certainly help young children with high functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome overcome their struggles with the really tough issues blocking their positive growth and development. Therapists, educators and parents caring for autistic children who endure a heavy load of anger, distrust, difficult interpersonal relationships, poor self-esteem and self-doubt need this excellent book.

  Liane Holliday Willey

  Children, Self Esteem, Block

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• My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.

  Sally Phillips

  Running, Mean, Blood

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• I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have. My wife actually thinks I have a syndrome called Reality Distortion Field. It's kind of like drugs, only you can't come back from it. Reality Distortion is almost a permanent condition. Things come in and they go out: Presto, chango! To a certain extent, I did that with myself. As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

  Tom Waits

  Kids, Thinking, Reality

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2011.

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• Build your life around 5 key priorities: The Big 5. Any more and you'll suffer from Broken Focus Syndrome.

  Robin Sharma

  Keys, Broken, Focus

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Mar 20, 2013

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• The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings, the grad students or interns who tell you about syndromes, conditions, deviances, and disorders, and they love, love, love to talk. They speak in half-sentences with a knowing smile-squint, watch you falter at the pause, and then keep talking.

  Craig Clevenger

  Talking, Knowing, Bored

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• Everyone gets that second album syndrome.

  Niall Horan

  Albums

  "History boys: One Direction become first British act to top US charts with first two albums" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. November 22, 2012.

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• There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Names, Paris, Missing

  Rosecrans Baldwin (2012). “Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down”, p.255, Macmillan

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• Those with Anton's syndrome are not pretending they are not blind; they truly believe they are not blind. Their verbal reports, while inaccurate, are not lies. Instead, they are experiencing what they take to be vision, but it is all internally generated.

  David Eagleman

  Lying, Believe, Vision

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.61, Vintage

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• Having Down syndrome means nothing to me, I'm special like everyone else. I do not let people judge me for having Down syndrome. The important thing is how I feel about myself. On the inside, I feel beautiful.

  Edward Barbanell

  Beautiful, Mean, People

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