DYSAUTONOMIA.
So here's to my witty attempt to break down that really big word!
Nope- not quite.
DYS- loosely meaning something's screwed up. Or, as Google so eloquently put it when I looked it up- "bad; difficult"
AUTO- short for Autonomic- the part of everybody's nervous system that is supposed to automatically control stuff like your heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, and digestion. Sorry Volkswagen, it's got nothing to do with a car.
NOM- another part of Autonomic, I could have put them together- but if I hadn't separated them, how would I have gotten to use a video of Cookie Monster in a blog post?!
IA- who knew these two little vowels put together at the end of some big fancy word means abnormal condition/disease?!
And there you have it folks- Dysautonomia. As far as how the heck to pronounce it- I have heard even doctors say it two different ways:
DIS-AUTO-NO-MIA
(the more common way to say it)
OR
DIS-AUTO-NOM-IA
(the way I was told by my first specialist)
Chances are, if you can pronounce either one, or just have the faintest (haha) grasp of what it is if you ever hear someone else talk about it- Be Warned- that person is likely to get very excited that someone they know actually has heard of what they're going through.
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