Why we should stop calling the Mentally Challenged or Handicapped "retarded"

[Al Gorefiend]

Considering my entire high school years (age 11-19) was in a special school with over 200 students all with varying special needs I can say with upmost certainty you're talking bollocks

Aren't you just crippled? Don't you feel a degree of hate when people like you who are perfectly able to integrate into intellectual society are categorized with brain deficient humans?

Knew a girl born with no arms who had courses with the mentally challenged, despite having no issues with her brain. Would piss me off tbh.

[Belize]

Oh my god gen ot.

Stop being so ableist, jesus.

Brb telling tumblr, i can't even.

The day Manakin turned into a teenage schoolgirl and went full retard.

[Aeno]

Aren't you just crippled? Don't you feel a degree of hate when people like you who are perfectly able to integrate into intellectual society are categorized with brain deficient humans?

Knew a girl born with no arms who had courses with the mentally challenged, despite having no issues with her brain. Would piss me off tbh.

I was placed into classes with the mentally handicapped despite having no problems (or Asperger's at the very least, I have yet to determine). Problem was that I acted out/differently so the state just clumped me in a class and forgot.

[Bakis]

I dare to say it doesn't sit well with them(or me speaking with or of them) and therefore I see no need to use 'retarded' when interacting with them.
But yea, I love the word. It is striking, accurate and a no bullshit word which I will continute to use with consideration

[Al Gorefiend]

I was placed into classes with the mentally handicapped despite having no problems (or Asperger's at the very least, I have yet to determine). Problem was that I acted out/differently so the state just clumped me in a class and forgot.

I'd feel cheated at my chance of education. I recall seeing homework assignments stacked on a counter in a classroom used by the special need kids earlier in the morning. Freshmen in High School learning quadratic equations and pre-calculus, while the special needs kids are adding and subtracting minutes and hours on a clock.

[Aeno]

I'd feel cheated at my chance of education. I recall seeing homework assignments stacked on a counter in a classroom used by the special need kids earlier in the morning. Freshmen in High School learning quadratic equations and pre-calculus, while the special needs kids are adding and subtracting minutes and hours on a clock.

Holy shit, pre-calc as Freshmen? The average for that level is Junior/Senior mathematics in Virginia. How fucking sad.

[Spectral]

I continue to use "retarded" in an off-hand fashion simply because I refuse to run on the euphemism treadmill.

[Smokinya]

Who was that comedian that said: "...no one has the right to never be offended."?

The quote is from Stephen Fry. That's just the end of it, it's probably my favourite quote of all time!