11-07-2015, 01:21 PM
(11-07-2015, 12:40 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: But no one is telling anyone to stop using it in the delayed sense. It no longer is used by professional to refer to someone with a cognitive disability, so people are being asked to stop using it in that sense, both as an insult and as a description of someone with an actual cognitive disability.
And I'm totally onboard, in that respect
My step-son is autistic and my wife yells at me for saying something is ********.
My usage suggests that the thought process used was below logical/baseline/standard, but society has become so overly sensitive that they jump to images of children who were unfortunately dumped into a catch-all diagnosis forgot about.
