groats disease
groats disease. There’s not a lot of solid medical information available online about Groat’s Syndrome. And for good reason. It’s a fictional disease mentioned in Season Two of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. (In the episode in which it appears, Rob Reiner is raising funds for research into Groat’s, which causes hyperactivity and nervous behaviour.)
So what to make of this Web forum post, appearing here?
“As a sufferer of Groats syndrome it hard for me to keep me concentration long enough to write this message however leaving a band isn’t like cancelling cable, these people have helped you, you got to go in there. That being said it’s hard to recap the skills you can offer a band, I remember the recap for me is like 6 months and that’s just the crib.”
Is it a joke? Possible, but not likely, since there’s nothing jokey about the rest of the page (I’ve seen a MySpacer write that she has Groat’s, but she was clearly kidding).
Is the writer looking for sympathy? Or using the old victimization tactic to be heard more clearly? (I suffer from this, so you should pay more attention to my views on this completely unrelated issue.)
Or did this person see the episode and say, “Hey! That must be what I’ve got!” Kind of scary, if that’s the case. Internet-and-TV-based self-diagnosis techniques clearly have their drawbacks.groats disease. Source
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Its a real disease, though not a medical one. Look up some words in a dictionary.