Am come under the MR spectrum [mild] and do not find the word ret*d offensive,in terms of people,it just means being slower at learning and taking in things,but am also take drugs with the word ret*d in [tegretol ret*d,called so as it's the slow release version],and then there is 'fire retardant' to slow fires down,do not think the word should be seen as unuseable just because of how it can be used.
if are an MRer or are an assumed MRer,it is easy to be treated as a lesser person,but the same ignorants who treat self as a lesser person do exactly the same when have got the multiple learning disability tag [or any other label have been given as alternative,if any],people need to rise above their use and remember there's a lot more words out there that have been abused for many years like crip/cripple,spaz/spastic,nutter,care in the community etc-lots of people use those terms on themselves to fight back against those who use it in a nasty way against them.
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>severely autistic.
>>the residential autist;
http://theresidentialautist.blogspot.co.uk
blogging from the view of an ex institutionalised autism/ID activist now in community care.
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