Search Advanced search…. Members Current visitors. Interface Language. Log in. Install the app. Forums English Only English Only. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Getting things out of her locker is a challenge and sometimes, when she needs to go from one floor to another, she must do so alone in the elevator, while the other kids take the stairs.
Her disabilities are not insurmountable problems, but they are certainly challenges, both physically and emotionally. Do we really, then, want to be using this word as a synonym for stupid? We would tell the speaker that gay people are not stupid, women and girls are not bitches and people with cognitive challenges are not retarded.
Could we not also speak up for people with physical challenges? You would be partially correct. Given that we all know the literal meaning of this word, do we really want to be using it to describe something we think is stupid or unoriginal?
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