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by deanresin 749 days ago
My ex girlfriend's family used to have their cat litters right next to the kitchen table. Any bad behavior or decisions I've made since then I'm going to blame on her and my "taxoplasmosis".
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Toxoplasmosis is a debilitating disease which is suffered by those who cannot control a latent infection of toxoplasma gondii.

This is likely not you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis

The behavioral changes are a different matter.

I feel that naming one specific presentation of an infection for the pathogen isn’t so tenable now that we’ve realized there are multiple presentations.

Consider, is subclinical TB not TB?

So Toxo makes you subscribe to too many cat subs and overwhelmingly likely to not harm you?
That’s gross regardless of whether it led to you being mind controlled!
Taxoplasmosis is where you look at how much tax you pay vs what you get, and freak out.