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[Giantone]

Originally Posted by MTK

Depression is a common side effect from having a stroke. My Mom had one a few years ago. I’d straight up punch someone in the face if they called her a retard.

People that use that word are mentally challenged themselves. Seems it's all chico does is use trigger words.

[nonniey]

Originally Posted by Giantone

People that use that word are mentally challenged themselves. Seems it's all chico does is use trigger words.

Gotta disagree to an extent. Retarded is an actual term that has been converted into an insult. One of my step sons is moderately retarded and he is doing better than a couple of his non-retarded siblings.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by nonniey

Gotta disagree to an extent. Retarded is an actual term that has been converted into an insult. One of my step sons is moderately retarded and he is doing better than a couple of his non-retarded siblings.

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.

[nonniey]

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.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by nonniey

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.

What is insane is you trying to spin a good take on the negative connotation of the word "retard".

[Giantone]

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will submit his latest budget request to Congress on Thursday, offering what his administration says will be $2 trillion in plans to reduce deficits and future growth of the national debt.

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[nonniey]

Originally Posted by Giantone

What is insane is you trying to spin a good take on the negative connotation of the word "retard".

I didn't say retard I said retarded. Reading comprehension is a good thing, try it some time. And it is not a take. Mentally retarded is the medically correct term.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by nonniey

I didn't say retard I said retarded. Reading comprehension is a good thing, try it some time. And it is not a take. Mentally retarded is the medically correct term.

chico says retard! ...........still you need to stop. Mentally challenged is the term, stop trying to convince yourself your not an ass for using that term.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by nonniey

I didn't say retard I said retarded. Reading comprehension is a good thing, try it some time. And it is not a take. Mentally retarded is the medically correct term.

Mental or intellectual disability is the preferred term now.

Rosa's Law[1] is a United States law which replaced several instances of "mental retardation" in law with "intellectual disability". The bill was introduced as S.2781 in the United States Senate on November 17, 2009, by Barbara Mikulski (D-MD). It passed the Senate unanimously on August 5, 2010, then the House of Representatives on September 22, and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on October 5.[2] The law is named for Rosa Marcellino, a girl with Down syndrome who was nine years old when it became law, and who, according to President Barack Obama, "worked with her parents and her siblings to have the words 'mentally retarded' officially removed from the health and education code in her home state of Maryland."[3]

Rosa's Law is part of a long line of changes that has been ongoing since the early 1900s. Words such as idiot and moron were common in court documents and diagnosis throughout the early 1900s.[4] In the 1960s, changes in the law led to the use of such terms as mental retardation. With the loss of idiot (IQ 0–25), imbecile (IQ 26–50) and moron (IQ 51–75), specific descriptors of IQ-based intelligence were abandoned because of negative public sentiment. Under Rosa's law, these would be described respectively as profound, severe, and moderate levels of intellectual disability.

Nobody uses MR in my line of work anymore.