A true story and a little lesson about functioning level
An essay by Larry Arnold. Functioning levels are a discourse of intellectual impairments not physical ones, created out of older distinctions, wrapped up in Greek words to look respectable, words like “imbecile” “moron” “idiot” — “low grades” and “high grades” the categories of the institutions used to sort out who could do useful work in the laundry and who could not.
May 10, 2010