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Of course that process of "mainstreaming" clinical terms and shifting their meaning hasn't meaningfully changed either. See as an example the endless treadmill of clinical terms for intellectual disabilities re-purposed as insults by the general populace, causing the medical community to shift to new ones, and so on.


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