American Syndrome 

When an American is so Patriotic, they must salute whenever they see a United States flag until it has been moved or out of sight.

Uncle Bill has American Syndrome. Let's take advantage of it and steal all 2,500 of his guns and sell it to Afghanistan.

American Syndrome by The Fire Panda January 10, 2022

American Syndrome

When an American individual seems to be very uneducated, bringing up dumb questions or statements.
Many people talk about experiences where they were asked dumb questions by Americans.

"I didn't know that you have a McDonald's in Germany. I thought they were only in America."
"Wow, your country has vacuum cleaners?"

"He asked me so stupid questions, this guy must be having American Syndrome"

American Syndrome by gulpriel April 14, 2026

Enlightened American Syndrome 

A self-loathing American who disparages American society and people with sweeping negative stereotypes and subjective rantings, with unsaid implication that they have somehow risen above their countrymen and behave in a more cultured manner. EAS is especially common among young Americans who have traveled or lived briefly in an expat bubble overseas.

Julie came back from her summer study program in Germany with a bad case of Enlightened American Syndrome and won't stop complaining about the ugly strip malls in her neighborhood.

Enlightened American Syndrome by Steady Mercury September 16, 2021

American Shotgun Syndrome 

American Shogtun Syndrome, more commonly known as "ASS!" is the problem built into many multiplayer games to do with lag. This term was originally coined specifically for First-Person Shooter games, but in time has been used for any multiplayer game with similar problems.

ASS occurs when one user, for example from Europe, plays against an American player on an American server. The American player will be able to walk upto the European player, take aim and shoot them in the face with a shotgun at point-blank range to kill them instantly. The European player, suffering from a higher latency will see the American player where he was a second ago, then simply see this as being killed instantly by a shotgun from around 20 metres away, sometimes around a corner or after scoring a headshot or melee kill on said American player.

At the same time, when a European player tries to get up close, aim and get a shot to the head at point blank range against an american player, they may actaully be shooting at where the American player was a second ago, and either do much reduced damage or miss altogether.

When a player suffers from this occurrence, they are often know to disclaim "ASS!"- as they have fallen victim to the effects of American Shotgun Syndrome.

That guy killed me with his shotgun after I hit him in the face with my plasma sword! ASS!

Ugh, I don't want to play this game, it suffers too much from American Shotgun Syndrome... Yeah, it reeks of ASS.

American Shotgun Syndrome by Terra Fang November 16, 2011

Average American Derangement Syndrome 

The idea that the average American citizen does not know how to take care of him/herself, and must follow, without question, any and all policies of the Obama administration, and anyone who doesn't is a racist. Peaceful protesters are likened to rowdy hordes, individuals who question their representative at a round table discussion are deemed traitors, any person who holds traditional beliefs of any kind is branded a fanatic, and most disgracefully brave war veterans are labeled as extremists.

Some examples of Average American Derangement Syndrome:

-The Democratic National Committee wrote, "Republicans and their allied groups...are inciting angry mobs of a small number of rabid right wing extremists funded by K Street lobbyists to disrupt thoughtful discussions about the future of health care in America taking place in Congressional districts across the country."

-The Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, stated, "They (protesters) are carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on healthcare."

-Jennifer Crider, spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, stated, "Conservative activists don't want to have a conversation. They want to disrupt."

-Representative Gerry Connolly, a Democrat from Virginia and president of the freshman Democrats in Congress, stated that right-wing groups are moving the healthcare debate to "a dangerous level" by using false facts to create anger. He said, "When you look at the fervor of some of these people who are all being whipped up by the right-wing talking heads on Fox, to me, you're crossing a line. They're inciting people to riot with just total distortions of facts."

Average American Derangement Syndrome by jmhoffer August 29, 2009

American Derangement Syndrome 

Canadians and Europeans are the most likely to have it. It's a sickness in which individuals live such uninteresting lives that their only source of enjoyment is hating on the world's greatest nation. The most common symptoms include flexing irrelevant geographic information that no one cares about, flexing free healthcare that comes with a tax rate four times that of the average American, and flexing colonial wealth from Africans' backs (Françafrique).

European: whats the capital, coat of arms, head of state and date of formation of Montenegro?
American: Who tf cares?
European: Bro you stupid American schools suck, smh
American: You got American Derangement Syndrome

American Derangement Syndrome by aussiewhowantstobeamerican August 8, 2021

American Derangement Syndrome 

A (not real) disease where a person has a massive freak-out when seeing someone being stupid and automatically assumes the person is an American, even with absolutely no evidence to support it.

Also known as: ADS (Abbreviation)

See also: Trump Derangement Syndrome

American Derangement Syndrome is much more common than the Trump variant

American Derangement Syndrome by Ubeenbamboozledson April 5, 2024