Eh? It's a word most of the US still uses, and has little to do with actual, clinical retardation. Is it bad to call yourself an idiot, because some people actually *are* idiots? I think not. I don't happen to have any major mental or medical problems, but if I were, for example, a cripple I would hardly care if a public figured made some joking application of that term to himself. People who would object need to get over themselves. There are a lot of people without handicaps that have harder lives than you. Deal.
As someone who DOESN'T have an intellectual disability or a family member with it....how do you know what your life would be like or what you would or would not care about....you don't know what it was to have therapy every single day or medical appointments or to deal with ridicule and insults?
Eh? It's a word most of the US still uses, and has little to do with actual, clinical retardation. Is it bad to call yourself an idiot, because some people actually *are* idiots? I think not. I don't happen to have any major mental or medical problems, but if I were, for example, a cripple I would hardly care if a public figured made some joking application of that term to himself. People who would object need to get over themselves. There are a lot of people without handicaps that have harder lives than you. Deal.
ReplyDeleteAs someone who DOESN'T have an intellectual disability or a family member with it....how do you know what your life would be like or what you would or would not care about....you don't know what it was to have therapy every single day or medical appointments or to deal with ridicule and insults?
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