"ret*d"?

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OK. Now first off, I find "ret*d" offensive too, but if we aspies are protesting it, doesn't that imply that we are ret*d? I don't like that.

HUH? If people claim I made a mistake when I didn't, etc... I PROTEST! Just TODAY some idiots tried to tell me that I made a mistake because some code didn't work like THEY thought it should. They claimed that code that has run an entire enterprise for over a YEAR was faulty because it didn't work like THEY thought it should. I told them GEE, I did it this way so it would run faster and YOUR way would have only been SLOWER, and would STILL FAIL! In the end, I proved I was RIGHT! THEY did things WRONG!

What should I have done, since I didn't make the mistake? Should I have changed everything to work like they wanted, and possibly see everything come crashing down? Have an international company go broke? Possibly have people DIE!?!?!? NOPE! I told the truth.

Though I have never been called ret*d, etc... I hate the term ret*d. I think most people that use it are probably better described by it.

Wait, what? Protesting that you're not mentally ret*d means that you are?

Retardation, a nation invented in muh head. I am the Queen. Are you the ruler of your nation, HA!

All those silly things, as you say, resisted, that in the end are our lessons to learn to help us move up into a place of joy. We can do this. We can find our divine right of existence. Love is all we need, which only makes sense when we get there. Huh, I rambled. Later

No, protesting about the term itself.

Take heart, social progress is at hand: remember the movie Waterworld? Remember when someone calls Kevin Costner "ret*d?"

You wouldn't get away with that anymore, no sir.

I'm confused too.
I hate the term 'ret*d'. I've been called it a lot when I was too slow to get a joke or not being able to understand something right away.
I don't even think doctors use the word 'mental retardation' because the term is considered a negative slang to put someone down. At least, that's what I read on Wikipedia.

I've been called this myself by certain people esp when I have one of my little 'anger episodes'. I hate it, it's degrading.

ret*d doesnt mean what you think it does, i saw this on csi las vegas. i just dont remember what it is

Another aspie at my school, who goes around telling people he's autistic, stole a car from the autoshop class a few weeks ago. I was one of the first people to hear about it. At first, the rumour was "some autistic kid stole a car". But when I heard people talking about it at the end of the day, it was "some ret*d kid stole a car".

I think there should be a saying, like "Only ret*ds call others ret*ds". Cause when I hear someone calling someone a ret*d, they seem to possess all the qualities they are trying to demean in someone else:

A lack of intelligence

Poor social skills

Lack of empathy

ect. All these things exemplified by the person who calls another person a ret*d. So really they might as well be saying, "I'm a ret*d" when they do it.

It seems like no matter how much awareness we try to spread.. many people will continue to think that autism and low intelligence are linked Recently someone on another message board said that when she took her autistic child shopping, he was sleeping soundly in his stroller. The mother said she had a conversation with another lady and the mother told the lady that her son is autistic. The lady looked with pity at the child and said to the mother "thats so odd, your son doesn't look ret*d" UGGH!! !

Can you say, "troll?"



Someone should remove this thread. It's too obvious.