HighLlama wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
A person who is seriously "intellectually disabled" (ie "ret*d") wouldn't have the writing skill to describe to you "what it's like to be intellectually disabled". So its a rather inane question to post.
America's slaves lacked the ability to write in English what their experience was. Does that make it inane to wonder about that experience?
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Excuse me?
I said its inane to
ask intellectually disabled folks. I did not say its inane to
wonder about it.
By bringing up slavery you're just proving my point.
You wouldn't go on the 2019 world wide web and say "HEY YOU! Former slaves in the American antebellum south! I want you to post about what it was like to be a slave!" for the obvious reason that the folks you are addressing are no longer alive.
Also many slaves, like Frederick Douglas, did learn to read and write, and talk about their experiences.
By the same token its kinda pointless to ask living people who are, by definition, inarticulate, to articulate what its like to be inarticulate (ie why address people who you know are incapable of writing posts on the web to describe what its like to be so mentally disabled that you cant do things like make posts on the web).
Finally - the main body of your post also proves my point: it takes someone like you, who is NOT themselves ID, but has experience with folks who are ID, to articulate to folks on a text based website like this one what it is like to be ID. None of the intellectually disabled folks you worked with could have written your post about what its like to be intellectually disabled.