I'm "exceptional"- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of "gifted" and "deprived" {which used to mean "bright" and "retarded"} and as soon as "exceptional" begins to mean anything to anyone they'll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression as long as it doesn't mean anything to anybody. "Exceptional" refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I've been exceptional.
( Daniel Keyes )
[ Flowers for Algernon ]
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