n. frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone—spending the first few weeks chatting in their psychological entryway, with each subsequent conversation like entering a different anteroom, each a little closer to the center of the house—wishing instead that you could start there and work your way out, exchanging your deepest secrets first, before easing into casualness, until you’ve built up enough mystery over the years to ask them where they’re from, and what they do for a living.
It's symptoms include impaired vision, unavoidable lose of objects, sleepyheadedness and what may be perceived as laziness, but is actually Afroitis causing 'island-time-itis'. It's often associated with reggae, hip hop and blues. And often perceived as a 'gateway' to drug and substance abuse, although there is no scientific prof.
Damn...where is that comb?! Oh, it's stuck in my Afro...damn my Afroitis! Where did I put that bong?