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In reply to the discussion: Capitol Rioter Decides to Represent Himself in Court, Accidentally Admits to Two New Felonies [View all]Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)45. "Couldn't possibly be that he's an idiot."
He mentioned his previous mental health diagnoses in the hearing, which is also noted in the article.
From Wikipedia:
In 19th- and early 20th-century medicine and psychology, an "idiot" was a person with a very profound intellectual disability. In the early 1900s, Dr. Henry H. Goddard proposed a classification system for intellectual disability based on the Binet-Simon concept of mental age. Individuals with the lowest mental age level (less than three years) were identified as idiots; imbeciles had a mental age of three to seven years, and morons had a mental age of seven to ten years.
According to Mr. Fellows, he has ADHD, Asperger's, and was classified as a "slow learner". He's probably much higher functioning than a person who would have previously been classified as an "idiot" or what would have been characterized a few years ago as:
In the obsolete medical classification (ICD-9, 1977), these people were said to have "profound mental retardation" or "profound mental subnormality" with IQ under 20.
He skipped his court-ordered mental health evaluation, but seems to be able to list the various things he's been called by people who have examined him or attempted to educate him.
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Capitol Rioter Decides to Represent Himself in Court, Accidentally Admits to Two New Felonies [View all]
babylonsister
Oct 2021
OP
Problem is most of them are white and most judges are white so they tend to get
mucifer
Oct 2021
#16
Thank you for this. I have relayed to her several times that she is courting legal jeopardy.
niyad
Oct 2021
#54
Trump really missed an opportunity by not offering law and medical "schools" at Trump University.
tanyev
Oct 2021
#27
...I think a very bright person said that...Abe Lincoln, or another bright one, Mark Twain"
Stuart G
Oct 2021
#37
I'm sure that the guy thinks he's as much an expert on the Constitution as he is CRT
Rabrrrrrr
Oct 2021
#58
Lemme tell you something. Recognize there are times when you need an expert
bucolic_frolic
Oct 2021
#67