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Originally it was not used as a particularly Pejorative term and was, along with '' Idiot '' and '' Moron '', considered to be a relatively precise psychiatric label in its day. The '', about those in the population who carried the recessive trait despite outward appearances of normalcy. In the first half of the 20th century, "feeble-mindedness, in any of its grades" was a common criteria for Compulsory Sterilization in many U.S. states. Jack London 's 1914 story, " Told In The Drooling Ward ," describes inmates at a California institution for the "feeble-minded." Such an institution existed (the California Home for the Care and Training of Feeble-minded Children, now the Sonoma Developmental Center) close to the Jack London Ranch in Glen Ellen, California. The story is a narrative told from the point of view of a self-styled "high-grade feeb". SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINK
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