Top Ten Reasons Why People Should Stop Hating On the Mentally Disabled
It is so mean. I have autism, and I've been picked on. I've also seen mentally retarded people be picked on. There was a group of people at my school who went out of their way to pick on kids with disabilities. They would run up to them and shout insults, and in dodgeball, they would hit them in the head. They once told a retarded kid, You have a dog's intelligence.
It's not their fault they're not like you. Put yourself in their shoes. How would you feel if someone made fun of you because you're not like most people? It would feel absolutely awful. Stop making fun of them.
They can't help being born with disabilities - they're still humans, just like the rest of us.
As a certified 'Tard, we aren't retarded. We're just smart in our own ways. There is a universe where retards are the master race.
It's never funny. Having worked with the mentally handicapped for 28 years, I guarantee most of them do know what you are saying, and it hurts.
If it is witty, light-hearted, and has no intention to be offensive, then it may be slightly. But the mean ones...
What kind of idiot would make fun of someone with a terrible condition like that? I mean, that is very immature.
There are two people at my church who have said retarded. I get angry when I hear it used as an insult. I don't even know anyone who is retarded, but it still makes me angry.
I'm shocked people really do this kind of stuff to mentally disabled people. I normally see people being really nice to them. But yes, it is mean-spirited to hate on mentally disabled people. Just plain evil.
In most cases, you're right, RockFashionista. But there are also people who become mentally handicapped in several different ways, including traffic or industrial accidents, aneurysms, severe illness, and others. Sometimes the person was in an accident early in their life, and you just don't know.
This condition is caused by mutations in DNA after the meiosis process during sexual reproduction. That means it happened before they were even born. It's obviously not their fault.
Do you think they just decided, "Hey, I have a great idea! Let's get this condition that will make socializing and learning harder for me than all the 'normal' kids and get picked on for it for the rest of my life"?
As Martin Luther King Jr. said, people should not be judged on their color, religion, physical condition, etc., but by the content of their heart.
I literally don't understand why people hate on others just because they are different.
Black, white, Asian, Mexican, man, woman, gay, straight - we are all equal.
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It makes me angry when others say autistic people are mentally retarded. I'm not kidding. Few things in this life make me angrier. I have autism, and I'm not mentally retarded at all. Neither are other autistic individuals.
THANK YOU! I'm so glad there are people out there who actually appreciate people like us. The more we share our experiences, the better.
@RockFashionista Wow! Those people don't even realize mental retardation and autism aren't the same things!
Most were, but not all. I work in the field of caring for the mentally handicapped (that's the term I use), and I remember a staff member named Tim that I worked with in a group home. Tim left to work at a construction company, and I left to work at a day activity center for the mentally retarded (MR).
A couple of years later, after a bad industrial accident at the construction company, the day activity center where I was working got a new client, and it was Tim. There's a saying among workers in my field that you're only a car accident away from being the care-getter and not the caregiver.
Every human being has their own flaws. Nobody is perfect, so you shouldn't be too critical of others. And you can't help the way you're born.
Duh! No one is perfect except in their own way.
They are most definitely aware.
It cannot even be considered a wisecrack or a joke. All it does is make those with disabilities feel down, and depending on the condition and severity, it can lead to suicide or murder. You can be arrested for enforced suicide or murder by proxy, and that doesn't benefit anyone. It makes everyone more miserable.
I'm not saying all people with disabilities do this, but it is an example of how bad it can get. If you don't take heed of this, then you are just an inhumane being and should die.