League_Girl wrote:
But what if someone really did think they are ret*d? I thought when I was 14 I was and I wasn't happy about it. After years of being called that by kids, I had started to think they were probably right and I was. I don't think I was showing disrespect. All I got was that I wasn't ret*d and I kept being told I am very smart. Then my mother had to remind me I have Asperger's.
You said you were not ret*d, but your mother said you were because you have aspergers. Not only is your mother wrong on medical grounds, but your mother called you ret*d. That sounds vindictive, in fact callous for a
real mother to say.
League_Girl wrote:
You said we are showing disrespect if we call ourselves that
Well to put it frankly, you are. You're trivializing actual mental retardation, which is a severe lack in IQ, something that if an autistic expresses is seperate from the autism diagnosis itself.
Low functioning people when able to communicate are shown to have an IQ often above the very low threshold below which children are called ret*d. Equating autism and mental retardation belongs to the 50s, nothing more than quack science by today's standards. It's the sort of incompetent thinking that would have held back Temple Grandin.
I never said my mother told me I was ret*d. Other kids did.
01 Jan 2012, 6:09 pm
