Back in my day it was asthma that was in fashion.
More recent experience seems to indicate they diagnose according to who sponsors their stationery.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 26 May 2009, 13:10, archived)

Sadly this has an element of truth.

( Anthropos Was making beer on, Tue 26 May 2009, 13:12, archived)

Some people do have asthma though

( WormuIus, Tue 26 May 2009, 13:12, archived)

In fact I've re-read your post and find that it smells of ignorance and Daily Mail.

( WormuIus, Tue 26 May 2009, 13:13, archived)

Both of these effects have been observed directly by me, in person.

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 26 May 2009, 13:18, archived)

i was diagnosed with ribble manilla as a child

( spacefish bong!, Tue 26 May 2009, 13:15, archived)

:((
I had silvine jotter
Maybe we should start a support group
( vladimir, Tue 26 May 2009, 13:22, archived)

Yeah, some people, I imagine.
But when I was at primary school, something like 50% of the entire school had inhalers.

My cousin got diagnosed with it, and my aunt was like "nonsense he's not got asthma just because he gets out of breath sometimes during exercise," and didn't get him an inhaler, and nothing bad happened.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 26 May 2009, 13:15, archived)

That sounds pretty conclusive to me.
you sputtering mongol
( WormuIus, Tue 26 May 2009, 13:17, archived)

I dread to think what you were diagnosed with.

( WormuIus, Tue 26 May 2009, 13:17, archived)

^This.
I never bothered using the inhaler I got given, and the only reason I got one in the first place is because my mum does actually have asthma and was being all precious.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 26 May 2009, 13:17, archived)

I got diagnosed with 'asthma' when I was 9.
Unsurprisingly, doing a bit of exercise cleared it right up.

Unfit =/= asthma. Stupid doctors.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 26 May 2009, 13:15, archived)