Mom Says The R-Word Is OK Because It's In The Dictionary

[prodigitalson]

33. retarded is really the biggest one in my lifetime, but that's because I have worked with people with learning

disabilities, as both a classroom teacher and when I was younger for what was then The Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation. Way before that (I worked there in the 80s and 90s), Idiot (IQ below 25), Imbecile (IQ 26-50) and Moron (51-70) were actual medical terms according to Chat GPT. In the 80s we referred to people roughly in those three categories as severely, moderatley and mildly retarded. I have no doubt that within my children's lifetimes they will cringe when they see old videos of me casually tossing around cruel insults like "intellectual disability" or "developmental delay."