db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM to ADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 year agoPoorly-named afflictionlemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1676arrow-down122
arrow-up1654arrow-down1imagePoorly-named afflictionlemmy.dbzer0.comdb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM to ADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squarefristislurper@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoThe WHO discourages this because people will start associating the name with the disease. Which sucks if you happen to have this name. See Tourette’s, or Chagas disease. You can read a bit about it here.
minus-squareanton@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 days agoWe should name diseases after members of uncontactable tribes. We just need to ask them for their names and … shit.
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The WHO discourages this because people will start associating the name with the disease. Which sucks if you happen to have this name. See Tourette’s, or Chagas disease.
You can read a bit about it here.
We should name diseases after members of uncontactable tribes. We just need to ask them for their names and … shit.