Oct
4

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.

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I'm 24 years old. I am a pre-med and nursing student at a private Catholic college in Kansas. I work as a bartender and I also work as a caregiver. I have been a CNA for 5 years. I have PCOS, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, tendinitis, congenital nystagmus (only person in the US to have the surgery and come out with 20/20 vision), adult ADHD, OCD, paranoid personality disorder, GERD, cystic acne, severe dry skin, eczema, & psoriasis. I am a survivor of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (it can lead to Leukemia). I am part Jewish and am proud of that. My family is Christian, but they do practice alot of the Jewish ways. I always try to speak my mind and I don't sugar coat things. I have no hate towards anyone, but very few people who cross me will ever earn forgiveness from me. God knows this is something I struggle with everyday. I will go out of my way to help people, even if I don't like them, because that's how I was raised and taught. I am common law married to the love my my life, Mike (27) until we get married legally, which will be here in a month or so. We are planning a bigger wedding in a year. We are very Southern in our ways as in we believe in Southern hospitality and even if we don't like people to atleast be cordial because we both come from Southern families. We are TTCing our first and only child. We have been TTCing since June 27th 2009. We are using Kimmie's Lunar Fertility Chart. We got PG August 6th. The same day we got a positive pregnancy test I started miscarrying. My doctor told me it was not a chemical pregnancy.

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