Lindsay McMahon

And this is interesting because this is about the individual.

It's used very differently here when it's an obsession or a mental health condition that one person could have.

Which is the desire to start fires.

So a person that has this desire is a pyromaniac.

And of course, we use these very often to exaggerate.

I remember my little brother, we always called a pyromaniac because he just wanted to start the fire when we were camping.

And then he would want to play in it and poke and it would be like, you're such a pyromaniac.

He, of course, wasn't really a pyromaniac that had this obsession.

He just liked fire like a little like young boys often do or girls, young kids.

It's like, ooh, fire.

kleptomaniac you know but or you can joke about it if like someone takes a cookie from like your packages of cookie package of cookies without asking you'd be like you are such a kleptomaniac because you're accusing them of stealing it without acting asking yeah but just in a playful fun way right and sometimes people even just shorten it to klepto right that's right yeah which and pyro be like oh you're a pyro or you're a klepto and it's short for those

Yeah, maybe with very close friends where you're very confident that that's not a concern or not something that would offend them.

But yeah, that's true.

You wouldn't say it to just a coworker that you don't know well.

Never heard of this.

I guess it's the urge to pull out hair.

I know people who either have the urge to pull out the hair on their head or like eyelashes or eyebrows.

So that's very common, I think.

Yeah, good point.

I love that.