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Adrianne Has Suffered from Cognitive Deficits for Her Entire Life

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Adrianne has suffered from cognitive deficits for her entire life. When she was a child, she was diagnosed as suffering from "mental retardation." If she was now rediagnosed with the DSM-5 and found to have the same symptoms, which label would replace her former diagnosis?


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Similarities

The state or condition of being alike, sharing characteristics or qualities with something or someone else.

Transgender

An umbrella term for persons whose gender identity or expression differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.

Cisgender

A term for individuals whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth.

Homosexual

A term describing individuals who are sexually attracted to members of their own sex.

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