According to her, he is medium-functioning autistic. One of my friends is thrilled because her seventeen-year-old son is starting to read at a first-grade level.but I have never heard her call him retarded. Maybe I'd feel differently if I weren't personally acquainted with many people with an amazing variety of disabilities, including retardation. after they have exhausted all the alternatives - Sir Winston Churchill The Americans will always do the right thing. I hope she hasn't lost any respect for me over it.
I'd also like to appologise for the rather rash comments I made towards AMRAAM. I was going to post the "offending" poster here, but as to avoid offending even more people, I'll just post a link to it. Besides, there have been plenty of "anti-British" posting here. I was recently attacked for my so called "anti-American" attitude by some newbie who obviously didn't know that it's been a long running joke. If you take it in the context that it was meant, then you shouldn't find it offensive. It's just a poster, a collection of pixles on a monitor, nothing more. I disagree with its removal, I think it was taken in the wrong context. The arguments were going nowhere, it was futile for either side to continue. I deemed it appropriate to show how I felt about that thread, a continuation of a 10 month old topic that should have been left well alone. I'm assuming the poster that I used recently in the SCers debate thread. I guess there is a lot of unsureness when it comes to deal with 'retarded' people because they just don't act according your assumptions so your standard social interaction behavior you are used to fails to work or leads to suprising and unexpected results.Īnd unsureness is often the tranisition to fear which may finally lead to an association of negative feelings towards the source for this unsureness: Scorn, abomnation you name it. This comparsion showes quite a bit despise, and I noticed that at game service the term retarded is often used to insult someone. Take a look at the news and ask yourself if we have the right to call THEM retarded at all. Thinking about it I wonder why 'retarded' people have a so a bad image amongst us 'healthy' people. Although the fact stated with that saying may be true - I never found myself changing my point of view towards anything due to a message board debate so far - there are other comparsions with less inconsiderate and inprudent character possible to deliver the message.