Steve Kandell, “Who Put the ‘Ass’ in ‘Asperger’s’?” Details (February 2010)
“People are constantly seeking new sources of vocabulary, especially when it comes to ridiculing the awkward,” says Ben Zimmer, a linguist and the executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus, a lexicology website. “We think of psychiatric terms as needing to be precise, but they fall in and out of fashion.”
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