Agree, very often people throw words, the meaning of which they sometimes do not even know. It is not uncommon when grandmothers at the entrance call a teenager who is fond of partying and drinking only, “imbitsil.” Who is it really? What does this term mean in medicine, after all, where did it come from? Let's understand this issue in more detail.
The medical term has gone to the people
If we talk about what the word "imbitsil" means, then always the hand reaches for the medical reference book. However, thanks to the grandmothers who are on duty at the porches, and to teachers who quite often hang labels on negligent teenagers, calling them morons, oligophrenics and imbeciles, the word has gone into the masses. And they, the masses, in turn, actively use it, sometimes without even knowing its exact meaning.
Everything incomprehensible is imbecile
According to psychologists, modern people are quite limited and fit into a certain framework. You must admit how often you can hear the phrase “offended by imbicil” after a teenager who has black-colored hair or a nose ring. Most people do not understand the various subcultures that teen companies are inundated with.
But if for you a Goth girl or cyberpunk is an imbecile, then for her environment she is an ordinary person who fits perfectly into the culture of communication and lifestyle of an individual youth community. Or, for example, a lot of modern young people are fond of rafting, climbing or becoming diggers, keen on maps of abandoned sewer stations. From the point of view of, say, a neat botanist obsessed with the lack of germs and a white coat in the laboratory, an ordinary bicycle racer, selflessly driving along dirty and dusty roads, will also be an idiot and a moron. As they say, each stratum of the population, each generation has its own imbeciles and oligophrenics.
In terms of medicine
Imbicil - who is it from the point of view of medicine? Any medical guide will tell you that this is a person who is significantly, and from early childhood, lags behind in mental and physical development. Such people are well aware of others, just can not fully build sentences in response. They often speak only verbs and short nouns. Competent construction of proposals is not a question.
Grandmothers are wrong
Any doctor will tell the same teachers and grandmothers on the benches that it is wrong to call a physically healthy child "imbitsil." Who is this, according to others? This is a naughty bully who does not respond to criticism of adults and does not listen to their comments and advice. But did you know that people who are diagnosed with “imbecility” in medical records, on the contrary, hear and understand criticism very sharply? They react very brightly to praise or, on the contrary, censure.
Doctors are sometimes amazed at how physically healthy people can be called medical diagnoses. People with mental disorders are often isolated. And when they fall into real life, having heard plenty of evil calls and insults, they simply become locked in themselves. Even the initial skills that their relatives instilled in them for a long time are forgotten in an instant. Think it over. Someone unhappy mother taught her child for years to eat on their own or brush their teeth. And you, having once called him on the street or having thrown a snowball with a laugh, ruin all the works of a person completely.
Imbitsil - who is it for family and relatives? Of course, in most cases (statistics inexorably shout about it), children with this diagnosis are born in dysfunctional families where mothers used drugs or alcohol. But there are those families who are ready to adopt or adopt such sick children. And these are just the heroes of our time.
Imbitsil is not an idiot
Very often these words are put on one offensive line. But in fact, an idiot is not an imbecile. The meaning of the term suggests that imbitsil, in contrast to idiots, are very attached to the family. They just need the attention and support of others. They can learn (with proper care) basic labor skills, they can learn how to serve themselves. Imbicycles learn the basics of writing and counting.
All patients can be divided into two groups: active and passive. Passive imbeciles do not respond to the environment, they are indifferent to life around them, they do not learn well even the elementary basics of self-service. Active patients, on the contrary, require communication, they are more restless and energetic. The only thing that unites all people with such a diagnosis is that they are all equally suggestible, completely devoid of any initiative of their own, are lost very quickly if the usual environment is changed, and are panicky afraid to be left alone.
Summing up, we can say that such people can only regret. A person cannot even take a spoon in his hands to feed himself, or go to the toilet on his own. A person cannot be happy or upset, does not know how to show feelings, even sometimes does not recognize relatives. Think it over. Are there many similar people in your environment? Should I just call a lazy person or a bully imbecile?