The Idiots Act 1886 made the legal distinction between "idiots" and "imbeciles". It is beneficial to baptize imbeciles and madmen. They also opened for Citizen Fish, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, and The Misfits. In 1870 the Metropolitan Asylum for Imbeciles was founded by the Metropolitan Asylums Board. His patients had microcephaly from craniosynostosis and were thought to be imbeciles. Three generations of imbeciles are enough. He is a member of crossover thrash band D.R.I. (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles). I've never understood talking down to kids and treating them like they're imbeciles. The turn of the millennium saw the Dirty Rotten Imbeciles headline the "Millennium 2000 Tour". Some states sterilized "imbeciles" for much of the 20th century. It opened as the Metropolitan Asylum for Chronic Imbeciles in 1870. The hospital opened in Lakeville in 1860 as the Connecticut School for Imbeciles at Lakeville. It was opened as the Normansfield Training Institution for Imbeciles in May 1868. Carrie Buck's story is explored in Adam Cohen's book "Imbeciles".