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   From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an seachtú lá is fiche de mí Lúnasa, scríobh Peter Moylan:   
      
    > On 27/08/25 19:13, Jenny M Benson wrote:   
    > > On 27/08/2025 03:11, Peter Moylan wrote:   
    >   
    > >> I have always had the impression that "interesting children" were   
    > >> disabled in some way, but I can't find any evidence of that.   
    > >   
    > > You may be right.  There is a book for sale on Amazon.com called   
    > > "Parenting Interesting Children: A real life story of raising a child   
    > >  with special needs."   
    >   
    > I mentioned the topic to my wife, who is a nurse, and she said it felt   
    > like a medical term. The modern version might be FLK.   
      
   As part of the long march of making medical jargon as dry and uninteresting as   
   possible (see also the ongoing attempted deprecation of eponyms in a field   
   where it is unremarkable for abbreviations to be ambiguous), FLK is a   
   deprecated term, so not currently modern.   
      
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