FUCK APA! Seriously...they can go fuck right off. I am so sick of people having a problem with the word "retarded". Can we grow up? This is not high school! Retarded means slowed and if you get offended by it, then don't read my posts. Yes, kids say it out of proper context, but those of us who do use it in proper context are being nailed to the cross over it because you can't seem to make out the difference. Maybe you're the one that's Mentally Challenged or one of the several other words that is now used to reference mental slowness.
Retarded was in our dictionaries way before mentally retarded was ever used as a medical diagnosis, so please grow up.
Yes, I got in trouble for saying my mom is "Diabetic Retarded" however my mom will even tell her patients that she is diabetic retarded due to the fact that she doesn't handle diabetes, her partner at their clinic does. She couldn't even help me with mine because she is not used to handling it, yet she is a doctor.
I wish people would learn to respect others opinions and others beliefs.
I have been called mentally retarded myself. My 2nd grade teach told my mother I was mentally retarded because I didn't know how to read like the other 2nd graders. It never occured to that teacher that when I transferred from the previous school, we were still working on learning how to read and spell at the same time in order to associate it with the right words. Also I have ADHD...so I also sit on a very different side of the fence than any of you. I have a learning disorder as well as mental illnesses such as OCD, paranoid personality disorder and a few other things. I also have friends who are mentally slow and they say the word retarded more than anyone else I know and we're talking definitely out of proper context. Are you going to nail them to the cross as well??
The whole mentally retarded thing comes from on the IQ tests. It used to say idiot, moron and so on and yet now those are okay terms to use. APA members use them every day on APA, but no one says anything to them.
Most of the words people think are offensive stem from a diagnostic or medical meaning. We all need to build a big ass bridge and get the fuck over it.
So I have been working alot and doing alot of school things!
Currently at work we are having problems with people not doing what they're supposed to be doing or just being bad at being waitresses and bartenders. One girl, the head bartender...she needed to make a frozen margarita. So she mixed the drink, but instead of adding ice and putting it in the blender...she just put it in the fridge..And she has years, I mean YEARS of bartending experience....so the boss said if she keeps wasting liquor she will get her hours cut yet again!
With school...we got Pre-med buddies and I have a paper I'm working on as well as tests coming up.
DH made tape!!! I'm soo excited!! That means everything will be paid off and we can remodel our house and so on!! Yay!!
There really is more than that, but I need to get my ass to bed!!