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Originally Posted by Giantone

Someone as close to you as that anyone else would call "challenged". The word retarded used in the term of any humans mental capacity is an insult. chico is just too ignorant to understand , you should know better.

Just because someone decides to use a descriptive term (in this case a medically descriptive term that was not created to be an insult) as an insult doesn't invalidate the term or definition. The correct term to use for someone who actually is mentally retarded is mentally retarded. Challenged doesn't accurately medically describe the condition - mentally retarded does (People also like to use challenged for any number of disabilities - wrongly imo). What are you going to do when the word "challenged" is used as an insult (heck it already is being used that way)? Insist it be cancelled and move onto a new word??? That's insane.