Actually, I am not sure that's it bubie2.5 and Nana Annie. I wish it were, he visited us, was the first time in 4 years we'd all seen each other. He agreed to stop sending dolls but thinks the best course of action "is to pretend there's nothing wrong"...
Yes, he really told me that.
And, the trouble with the word "moron" was it WAS a medical term, used around up to the 1930's to describe those afflicted with mild mental retardation, and autism was often lumped in with it back then. (I read to much on the net, I guess.)
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Idiot indicated the greatest degree of mental deficiency, where the mental age is 2 years or less, and the person cannot guard himself against common physical dangers. The term was gradually replaced by the term profound mental retardation.
Imbecile indicated a mental deficiency less extreme than idiocy and not necessarily inherited. It is now usually subdivided into two categories, known as severe mental retardation and moderate mental retardation.
Moron was defined by the American Association for the Study of the Feeble-Minded in 1910, following work by Henry H. Goddard, as the term for an adult with a mental age between eight and twelve; mild mental retardation is now the term for this condition. Alternative definitions of these terms based on IQ were also used. " from
here as one example.
