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I find it funny how the word retard has become a slur but the implication that something is retarded is still acceptable
I don't like either and have been mobbed over my opinion, despite being a caregiver for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
One of the reasons I speak up as a caregiver is I have known ASD 1 people who admitted that it bothers them that people use that term, but they feel like they can't make the argument themselves. Because they're disabled.
Out of touch assholes are the only ones still dug in over this.
I say it every now and then, but only for normally abled people acting like idiots. Is that an acceptable use?
The problem is, you're using someone else's diagnosis as an insult. That's the part that sucks.
Luckily we've been able to phase out most of the people who still have "mental retardation" as their diagnosis. The disappointing thing is we still have (mostly older) people who will never be reclassified.
As long as you get offended over the use of the word, you are giving that word power. Do what the LGBTQ community did and defang words like "f*g" and "qu##r"
I don't have the ability to explain to the mentally disabled why, when someone says a word that they associate with themselves in a mean way, that they shouldn't be hurt.
I have a woman in her late 60s who will tell anyone who listens about the time some kids called her "handicapped." And she'll cry over it. And it happened more than twenty years ago. So instead I have to advocate for the discontinuation of it's use. My hands are kind of tied here.
So I'll keep reminding people, "Please don't be an asshole if you can stop yourself." And for the ones who either choose not to stop themselves, or gleefully continue to be assholes (like a troll, or the entitled prick who insists that since they don't mean it "that way" everyone else should just accept that and understand it) I'll do damage control. But even one less instance of damage control is a blessing.