Originally posted by shavixmirYou don't use the S word for faeces in medical jargon, and it's used as an insult, but it still means faeces!
Sure it was. Around the time when hanging was legal and old people were nothing but soilent green.
Seriously. You don't use mentally retarded in social work anymore. Nowadays we call these people Bushesque.
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Author: C Simon Sebastian, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Director of Schizophrenia and Mood Disorders and Director of MHMR Clinic, Medical College of Georgia, Oct 9, 2008:
A diagnosis of mental retardation carries with it certain unique treatment needs that must be understood and addressed.
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/289117-overview
Originally posted by AThousandYoungYeah. Why not just quote something from 1745, blood let me and ban me from viewing full moons....
Author: C Simon Sebastian, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Director of Schizophrenia and Mood Disorders and Director of MHMR Clinic, Medical College of Georgia, Oct 9, 2008:
A diagnosis of mental retardation carries with it certain unique treatment needs that must be understood and addressed.
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/289117-overview
From Wiki:
The American Association on Mental Retardation continued to use the term mental retardation until 2006.[3] In June 2006 its members voted to change the name of the organization to the "American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities," rejecting the options to become the AAID or AADD. Part of the rationale for the double name was that many members worked with people with pervasive developmental disorders, most of whom do not have mental retardation.[4]
In the UK, "mental handicap" had become the common medical term, replacing "mental subnormality" in Scotland and "mental deficiency" in England and Wales, until Stephen Dorrell, Secretary of State for Health for the United Kingdom from 1995-7, changed the NHS's designation to "learning disability." The new term is not yet widely understood, and is often taken to refer to problems affecting schoolwork (the American usage), which are known in the UK as "learning difficulties." British social workers may use "learning difficulty" to refer to both people with MR and those with conditions such as dyslexia.
In England and Wales between 1983 and 2008 the Mental Health Act 1983 defined "mental impairment" and "severe mental impairment" as "a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind which includes significant/severe impairment of intelligence and social functioning and is associated with abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct on the part of the person concerned."[5] As behavior was involved, these were not necessarily permanent conditions: they were defined for the purpose of authorizing detention in hospital or guardianship. The term Mental Impairment was removed from the Act in November 2008, but the grounds for detention remained. However, English statute law uses "mental impairment" elsewhere in a less well-defined manner—e.g. to allow exemption from taxes—implying that mental retardation without any behavioral problems is what is meant.
Retard as a classification is only used to insult people nowadays.
Originally posted by peanutpicker61No she wasn't. Not when Limbaugh used it. This isn't about the word. And it's not about the context. It's about petty politics. Sensitivity is one thing. Feigned sensitivity swilled together with hypocrisy is something else altogether.
That's the point!! She has a child that is retarded and was offended by the context in which the word was used....in a non-medical context...
Originally posted by peanutpicker61I'm growing a beard waiting for you to explain why she miraculously wasn't offended when Rush Limbaugh repeatedly used the word "retard" - and did so in a much more offensive context.
That's the point!! She has a child that is retarded and was offended by the context in which the word was used....in a non-medical context...
BTW, did you actually try to claim saying "retarded" is just as offensive as using the N-word?
Originally posted by shavixmir2008 =/= 1745 numnuts
Yeah. Why not just quote something from 1745, blood let me and ban me from viewing full moons....
From Wiki:
The American Association on Mental Retardation continued to use the term mental retardation until 2006.[3] In June 2006 its members voted to change the name of the organization to the "American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disab ...[text shortened]... nt.
Retard as a classification is only used to insult people nowadays.
Originally posted by USArmyParatrooperWhy isn't Sarah Palin "offended" that Limbaugh's repeated use of the word "retard"?
Why didn't Sarah Palin just use his actual quote instead of spicing it up? Why isn't Sarah Palin "offended" that Limbaugh's repeated use of the word "retard"? Hell, he even used it to describe people who really have a mental handicap.
Are you at least going to admit that Sarah Palin is being completely phony on this issue and trying to score cheap political points via her son's condition?
didn't you hear the lady? she said its "satire".
Are you at least going to admit that Sarah Palin is being completely phony on this issue and trying to score cheap political points via her son's condition?
you're just saying that because you're a supporter of the arrogant elites.