#mental deficiency

[whats-in-a-sentence]

The forceful American Catholic liberal Father John A. Ryan, among others, warned that once the sacredness of the individual was weakened, all human rights were placed in jeopardy. Compulsory sterilization of the mentally deficient might well lead to compulsory sterilization of the "socially inadequate", then to "the killing of all sorts of incurables".

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

[american-protestant]

 Usage of Moron

AI Google Quote:

"The terms idiot, imbecile, moron, and their derivatives were formerly used as technical descriptors in medical, educational, and regulatory contexts. These uses were broadly rejected by the close of the 20th century and are now considered offensive".

My Summary:

THE MORAL OF THE STORY? Needful social scientific classifications like the above and race etc, dismantled because the tune in, turn on, drop out crowd has a complex about itself.

[oh-dear-so-queer]

Polani enlarged his work on color blindness in the human intersexes to include males with Klinefelter's syndrome – a condition with the symptoms of tallness, minor mammary development, and, often, testicular atrophy and mild mental deficiency.

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

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It was joined by mental-welfare workers who believed that the mentally deficient capable of caring for themselves ought to be permitted to live in the general community.

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

[build-a-bruce]

Superman: "Good to see you Bruce."

Bruce: "It's been a while."

Superman: "You seem to be holding up pretty well."

Bruce: "I could use some of that Kryptonian DNA."

Superman: "You'll outlive us all Bruce. You're too stubborn to die."

Batman Beyond, Season 3 Episode 7, 'The Call Part 1'

[roomba-mangga]

we really truly need more kind and loving and benevolent and sweet and compassionate and happy-go-lucky and optimistic and idealistic and principled and trustworthy characters who are unabashedly romance-repulsed, whose romance repulsion isn't just brought up for gags

[endivinity]

I've been diagnosed with ADHD-inattentive! It's clinically mild. It wasn't picked up in childhood because I was a gifted kid who wasn't disruptive or fidgety, or doing otherwise vastly inappropriately-timed behaviour outside of the usual for my age group, and then when it started presenting in later high school years I got the classic 'has potential, just needs to focus. Unfinished projects' in my reports, but because I wasn't fidgety or majorly disruptive it just got sort of sidelined. I fell between the cracks. But I think that's just the done thing, for people like me. Not severe enough to be noticeable, or the symptoms are managed (with a lot of hidden difficulty), or you're not enough of a compelling case (trying to get government assisted work placement failed, back when it was just the sleep disorder) - just mediocre, a mild inconvenience, your strengths prevented from being fully reached because they don't like all the issues of your deficits. which for me is in administrative stuff, as evidenced by never replying to emails :'D And then people sort of wonder why you're not doing everything they think you can. Believe me, we fucking know. We're frustrated too. There's a special kind of grief that comes with that, being left behind because you exist in a middle ground of expectation and disappointment, that I think I have to make peace with as I move forward with this. I'm 31. I've lost nine years to struggling between my degree and now. It wasn't all bad, but it's one of those things where I can't help but wonder how different it could've been if I'd known earlier. So what happens from here? I dunno. I'm being put on a trial run of meds and I have to properly handle my life balance since it's very easy to neglect your health when there are no outside pressures to do otherwise. more than anything I want to finish those five-year-old commissions that are still outstanding. Every time I open the files I get anxious and it really, really fucking sucks for everyone involved. From there, who knows?

[starleska]

my god. guys. just gotta scream about some medical stuff for a second. you know how i've been ill for quite some time. like really nastily ill. bizarre migraines, constant fatigue/joint pain, awful depressive mood swings? well, alongside some proper migraine meds, my doctor prescribed me vitamin D tablets. and the black cloud is gone. the fatigue is gone. the pain is gone. what!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭 this reinforces my belief that vitamin/mineral deficiencies can be extra insidious for neurodivergent folks because we're so used to ignoring our pain, and our difficulties with eating a wide range of foods/getting outside enough/breaking our routine/etc. set us up to be deficient!! 💔

to be clear, my doctor and the NHS say that folks in my country ought to be taking vitamin D supplements during the winter months anyway. it's actually mandated for everyone and i had no idea. just. enormous relief. getting my bloods done in a couple of weeks to confirm, but i wasn't expecting such an immediate effect 😳 so if anyone's been feeling unusually fatigued, sick, with disturbed menstrual cycles, migraines and moodswings, and there's no underlying cause...see if you can get your bloods checked, and consult with your doctor. especially if you're ND/get less sunlight/have a restricted diet!!!!

[romirella-96]

Willpower is getting stuff done despite bad dopamine regulation. Motivation is what dopamine regulation is.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

In 1919, Dr. Water E. Fernald, the leading American authority on mental deficiency, reflected, at a meeting of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, on the subject that had figured most prominently in the mainline-eugenic diagnosis of social problems.

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

[murderofsomeone]

not to sound annoying, but please start taking multivitamins

[hanzajesthanza]

should i change my headcanons based upon “i saw it in a dream”

[tenth-sentence]

Penrose recalled in his memoirs that at the time, in another English institution, "there was a school of investigators, headed by the eminent anatomist . . . R. J. A. Berry, who believed that mental deficiency could almost always be ascribed to inadequate development of the brain, induced by 'rotten' heredity."

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

[looselipssinkships-x]

my coworkers find my love for research papers odd and nerdy but like, where else am i going to find information on autism and the kink community? different eating disorders and their prevalence between different queer identities? how fish respond to different psychotropic medications?

[longlivetv]

Is there anything worse than having been told to try something like three years ago and then finally trying it and finding out it does what they said it would?

[whats-in-a-sentence]

On both sides of the Atlantic, the statistics of mental deficiency tended to be strongly class-biased. The more well-to-do the family, the more likely that a mentally deficient member would be entrusted to private care and escape the statistical net. The lower the income, the more likely that such a person would be consigned to a public institution and counted. Thus poverty could with ease be attributed to mental deficiency. Thus British mainliners could malign the differential birthrate as a dire threat to British society. And thus their American brethren could identify the supposed degeneration of their society principally with the proliferation of the new immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe.

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles