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Names of medical conditions can stigmatise unrelated people. Such as 'Spanish flu', or the old term for Down's syndrome 'Mongolism'.
Or they can misrepresent the nature of the condition, such as 'elective mutism' giving the impression that its sufferers are choosing to be mute (later changed to 'selective mutism' which has the exact same problem)
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