> I told my friend who brought this up in the first place about everyone's
> suggestions. She had doubts about ATM because "acute" doesn't apply to all
> people with TM. It's important that the term be correct for all of us.
She
> did point out that TMS, with "s" as "syndrome", would help explain why we
> don't all start the same, progress the same, and end up the same, even
> though we have the same problem. We need to show the complexity of the
> problem without confusing people.
>
> Aurore
>
This may seem an odd thought, but can we change the name of this ourselves? I
mean, sure, we can among ourselves or when trying to explain it to someone,
maybe, but don't "official" names for things like this come from the medical
community? If it were presented to the political community or the media as TMS
and someone tried to look up more info. on it, they wouldn't find it under the
"new" designation
Barbara