Asperger's jarring career trajectory demonstrates that, in just a handful of years, the same institutions and some of the very same people can shift from an ethos of care and curiosity toward a vulnerable group to one of callousness and genocidal cleansing. As if a switch has been flipped.

DEFINE: The 'flipped switch' metaphor helps conceptualize how institutional ethos can shift abruptly within years, not gradually over generations.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 699