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Ben, I have a feeling this is all tongue-in-cheek with you because there is an already named condition called "Anomia" . From the Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary: ANOMIA: Inability to remember names of objects. Many persons, not necessarily just PWP's have suffered with it for years. I'd certainly do some more research before I accepted this DND as a fact. just me, Marjorie At 06:43 PM 09/13/2000 -0700, you wrote: > Do you commonly find yourself calling your children by > the wrong name, and feel like kicking yourself for >spending > so much time selecting just the right name for each >child? > > Do you find yourself saying to your child, "Sure, I > know where you left your cookie. It's on the long white > horizontal surface in the kitchen...you know, the one >with > the thing we cook with on one end and the thing we put >stuff > in to keep it cold on the other end? Um...there's a sink > in it?" > > Do you tell people on the phone that you'll be happy to > take a message, just as soon as you find a >"message-writing-down > thingamabob?" > > In fact, do all the nouns in your vocabulary, nouns > which have been your friends and companions since > you were two years old, suddenly become "thingies" > when you are under pressure? You may be suffering > from Deficient noun disease. > >