Has anyone here ever been called retared?

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I have by people on the skytrain and bus. It is because I get into fights with people. The r word is a bad word.

I think most people here have been called "ret*d" or "ret*d" at some time in their lives.

Yes

I have also been told that I use autism as a cover for really being a ret*d in addition to the usual autism equals retardation way of thinking.

I would say they are ret*d but since we can't bash NTs I'll say that there are probably people both on and off the spectrum who are of limited intelligence. It shows more when NTs hate on Autism for being so called ret*d.

Multiple times

I have never been outright called ret*d, but I have been treated like it before.

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Ya, I'm weird like that...

Only as a random insult. No one has ever meant it seriously. Usually I get the opposite reaction from people; they often seem to think I'm some kind of genius. I'm not.

I've been called both many times.

I have been called a ret*d too many times to remember.
And yes it hurts.

In school

I've probably been called it in the past, but I don't remember a specific instance of it.

Lots of times.

Have overheard it at times when out in the public. Usually kids speculating what is wrong with me.

I've been called "ret*d", and "a ret*d". Also a Genius, for my Academic excellence. Lol, it's pretty Ironic

I've been asked by classmates "how are you so smart when you act so ret*d?". Heck, even teachers have insinuated the same thing, albeit through a more polite "wait... you're in this class? I would have thought you'd be in one of the bottom groups...", usually when someone who has taken me in a mixed-ability subject covers for a more academic lesson.

Ah secondary school, the most traumatic part of my life.

I didn't grow up in the most P.C. place on earth, I think, so it's a fairly common insult. I still prefer it to a lot of other insults, tbh.