PTAS
PTAS by Merriam Webster August 22, 2003
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PTASD
Parent/Teacher Association Stress Disorder
PTASD is the feeling that most volunteers get when they can't say no and they overcommit. Symptoms are:
1. Hiding in the produce department when you see a fellow volunteer at the store.
2. Avoiding your email for days or weeks at a time
3. Flinching, gagging, or retching when someone asks if you got their email
4. Barely slowing down and pushing your kid out of the car at school drop-off so that you can't be engaged in a conversation about PTA.
5. Beginning every sentence with "I'm sorry that I didn't ..."
PTASD is the feeling that most volunteers get when they can't say no and they overcommit. Symptoms are:
1. Hiding in the produce department when you see a fellow volunteer at the store.
2. Avoiding your email for days or weeks at a time
3. Flinching, gagging, or retching when someone asks if you got their email
4. Barely slowing down and pushing your kid out of the car at school drop-off so that you can't be engaged in a conversation about PTA.
5. Beginning every sentence with "I'm sorry that I didn't ..."
I have not been able to find Jane for weeks. Does she have PTASD? I need to know about the book faire.
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ptASSd
Post Traumatic Ass Disorder. A constant, irrational fear of your ass being harassed in a wide variety of ways, due to an inordinate amount of grabbing, spanking, poking, etc by your friends. The most common observable symptom of ptASSd, is never turning ones' back to anyone EVER, and NEVER bending over within anyone's reach, even if extremely inconvenient, so as to avoid a pen or pencil from being slipped into their buttcrack for example.
After 15 solid years of our butts getting poked and grabbed by everyone else all the time, our circle of friends all suffer from ptASSd.