? for the mom w/ a toddler with down's. why are you using a handicapped tag?
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Anonymous
Why are you having a contest with yourself to see how many times you can use the word? |
Anonymous
the word retarded is not offensive. |
Anonymous
Kevin Smith is hilarious. And so are you and your feeble insistence that there's nothing wrong with the *technically correct* usage of a word that's denigrated into a slur. |
Anonymous
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The word retarded has become pejorative and, as such, the use has been discouraged. For better or worse, the preferred nomenclature is now intellectually disabled. I don't really like that word, either, but if I'm going to use a label for someone, I'd rather use the label that the person themselves prefers. Since MR / Intellectually Disabled people don't always speak for themselves (though certainly they sometimes do, quite eloquently) I'll allow their advocates to choose the term.
People who are insisting on using the out-dated MR label are misinformed or rude. Once you are told it's not the preferred phrase, why not phase it out? To continue to insist on using it says something about you. http://www.r-word.org/ |
Anonymous
"Chipotle" mom here. You jerk. I might be crazy for singing out loud at the grocery to entertain my tot, I might be too sensitive for getting upset with a random guy at chipotle but I'm not a heartless stupid aashole like OP. BTW, I'm the first PP who pointed the congenital heart defect being common with down syndrome. Get a clue asshat. |
Anonymous
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I have a seriously retarded brother. We have handicapped tags. Oh the comments my parents have had to listen to over the years as they climb out of their specially equipped, wheel chair lift van. "You don't look handicapped to me". "Yeah lucky us, it's our child who will be a parapelegic for the rest of his life".
And I for one have no problem with the word "retarded" whether it is applied in a correct, medical sense or when used to indicate that something or someone is nonsensical. However, I know other family members of mentally retarded people who object to it, so I don't use it. But I don't freak out if someone else does. I think if you are not mentallly retarded or the family member of someone who is, I don't give a f*ck what you think about the word. Just like a black person may choose to own the N-word. Not my choice to use it and my opinion is not relevant as to their use of it. |
Anonymous
| I am the poster who had the retarded uncle. He used the word himself, and his doctors used that word. In neither case was the term used insultingly. "Intellectually disabled" sounds like something out of Animal Farm. |
Anonymous
Were you at Wegmann's in Fairfax on Saturday? Singing to your kid about everything you guys were doing in the bathroom? I thought that might be you. |
Anonymous
| OMG why do you care? She's not taking your spot away from you - if she has a legitimate handicapped tag, just leave it be ... even if the child can run jump hop and skip to the store, do you not think the parents have so much to deal with that a little perk like parking a little closer to public building entrances is unjustified?! Go bother people who don't recycle or throw wrappers in the street or mistreat their pets. |
Anonymous
Nope. I don't live in DC area. Sorry to disappoint you. 
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Anonymous
You're famous! You should register as "Chipotle." |
Anonymous
| She, any of her children, or her dh could have a disability. |
Anonymous
Then why oh why do you post here? |
Anonymous
| PP again - folks, there's NO way OP is for real. |
Anonymous
My father has heart problems and can't walk to the mailbox without assistance. But walking around a store like WalMart w/a cart is something he can do on his own, and something he likes to regularly do because of this. |