Preview

Word Retard

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
202 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Word Retard
When going up people use to always use the word retarded. Using the word retardy was a negative stereotype that cause people to see people in a native way. The word retarded is known to be a word that is considered very inappropriated and very insulting. Handicap is the approiate word that help describe a person that is been held back from been normal. When using the word handicapped people seen the individuals with more of a postive way.We never heard the word handicape untill later in life. As I got older the word retardy was not a nice word to use. As I substute in school I learned not to use handicapped along use handicapped accessible. I learned never not to say a disabled person say a person with disabilities. I learned not to say

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    A disability may be physical, cognitive (includes the memory process), mental, sensory, emotional, developmental or some of them combined. A disability may occur from birth, or happen during a person's lifetime. Who is to say handicap people and people with disabilities are even weaker than most? No one is capable of making that kind of…

    • 1416 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Cripple

    • 964 Words
    • 3 Pages

    In the essay “cripple” (1992), Nancy Mairs, implies that the word cripple is the better suited word for her because it does not hide the fact of what she really is and because handicapped or disabled is just a nicer way of saying cripple. Mairs made it clear that she wanted to be called crippled and not handicapped and/or disabled, it made her feel undeveloped and insecure. Mairs said society is no readier to accept crippledness than to accept death, war, sex, sweat, or wrinkles, in order to prove her point that society cannot see anything other than the way a person looks. The intended audiences are people that base their opinions on the looks of people and not their personality.…

    • 964 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    “About Being Considered ‘Retarded.’” by Amanda Baggs gives a great perspective on how those who have a disability are considered to be inferior or less human due to them being different from the societal standard of “normal”. To Baggs the way she looks and processes information is normal however compared to standards that society has placed she is different. To me Baggs is conveying the message that we label individuals who are different in this case those who have a cognitive disability and segregate them being considered normal due to the label of retarded.…

    • 94 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    This all changed after the Tennessee v. Lane case. This case forced public buildings to install handicapped entrances, making life easier for anyone handicapped. This case was a real eye-opener to the struggle of being handicapped and it…

    • 1499 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Mairs discusses how she doesn't like to be called “differently abled,” “disabled,” or “handicapped”. Mairs states how these words aren't specific, or descriptive. When talking about the word “crippled,”…

    • 217 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    As stated on page 1, handicaps have been made to take away so call advantages that some people have. As stated by the author, a Handicapper General was…

    • 282 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Disabled. Disabled is a word commonly defined as being physically or mentally impaired, injured,or incapacitated(dictionary.com.) Disabled is a word that brings a bad astigmatism over someone with its negative connotation. Nancy Maris dislikes the word disabled because she thinks that the English language uses to much euphemism in our speech. Maris want the language to use more straightforward language, even if it might offend some people. In her memoir Maris talks about how she became disabled from the disease M.S. She talks about her first symptoms when she was in college and how some days she wishes she was not disabled. In this story allusions provide more context about what she was thinking. Allusions in Nancy Maris’s “I Am a Cripple”…

    • 552 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    SPE 513 Complete Class

    • 1362 Words
    • 9 Pages

    What are the differences between the definitions of disability and handicap? Provide examples to support your response.…

    • 1362 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Harrison Bergeron

    • 496 Words
    • 2 Pages

    that gives a disadvantage. In the story Harrison Bergeron, handicaps are given to anyone considered to be pretty, smart, and out of the ordinary. Masks are worn so beauty is hidden, an ear piece prevents intelligent thought, and the extraordinary are chained up.…

    • 496 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The word “retarded” can never, in any form, be used “correctly”. Everyone says it. My best friends, my family, superiors, even families with a special need children. However, that doesn’t make it right. Strongly against the use of the word - stands John McGinley, Special Olympics Ambassador. In his Huffington Post Blog, “What Really Happens When We Use The R-Word,” the firm activist explains why this now commonly used word is always meant as a “euphemistic put-down”, and how it should never be used to define an individual with a disability. Instead, the word should be disposed of, and replaced with an alternative “with greater reliance on love, compassion, and grace.”…

    • 536 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Dumb Research Paper

    • 877 Words
    • 4 Pages

    If someone were truly crazy or mental they would likely need professional help. The words dumb and lame both actually have to do with the ability of the body. Dumb is a term used to describe people who can’t talk. I know that if I personally couldn’t talk for whatever reason I would be embarrassed and offended because I’d be considered dumb. Dumb shouldn’t be offensive to those who can’t speak but because basically everyone sees the term to mean stupid it is an insult. Lame is the same way except it applies to people who can’t walk. Retarded isn’t as common as dumb because people can usually recognise this word to be as harmful easier. However, it’s still a large problem because retarded is meant to describe disabled and special people, not your enemy or friend. A question I pose to the world is, why should people be scared and offended because a term that should be used to describe their physical limitations has turned into an offensive word and…

    • 877 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Society comprises individuals and communities of remarkable diversity. In addition to racial, ethnic, social, economic, and religious differences, people also have physical differences, which include a wide spectrum of abilities. Along this spectrum lie a range of impairments, or disabilities, and to fully understand the implications of impairment and disability, it is important to define the two terms. In an effort to accomplish this, and to illustrate two opposing views on impairment and disability, the ideas of artist-activist Liz Crow and film director-producer Josh Aronson will be examined. In doing so, the argument will be made that in order to move toward a society where prejudice and barriers no longer…

    • 1375 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Being An American Citizen

    • 785 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Older adults sometimes may drive, walk or speak slower and as an adult we should be able to recognize that it should not bother us but instead help them. But other people may not think the same and sometimes instead of taking care of who care for them once they send them to Senior Holmes for others to care for them. Which in some cases it is recommended because of the physical or medical attention older adults may need, but if all they need is a ride or to be cooked for, I believe it is unnecessary. Therefore, if older adults are being stereotyped because they move slower than the younger adults, people with disabilities are viewed differently by people who are obviously not educated to understand. People with disabilities are viewed differently because of their physical characteristics such as, blindness, mobility, etc. People that are not educated or know someone with physical disabilities will not understand unless they attempt to recognize it. For example, how many people will help a man or women in a wheelchair who is attempting to carry their groceries? Instead others will just stare and stereotype until the person in the wheelchair is out of sight. This situation seems un-human but these cases do occur in our daily life. Stereotyping does occur towards the elderly because of their lack of movement and people with physical…

    • 785 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Words such as disability, impairment, and handicap when misunderstood and misused can be hurtful, and offensive, especially to me. Every day is a struggle that I wish could just disappear. But, life is not a Hollywood movie, it's reality. I can't just magically start walking normally. In fact, I can never walk normally. It's not like the movie Forest Gump. Once he started running his braces broke and he was running normally. Cerebral Palsy does not go away by some miracle. It can never be cured, it can only be helped.…

    • 633 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Once an individual has had a bad experience while carrying out a task, it diminishes their confidence and self-worth and makes the task seem impossible to achieve. When a person who has no perception of disabilities makes an aside of how someone in a wheelchair, for instance, could ever do something like climb a mountain, for the wheelchair user with a low feeling of worth and achievement this sort of comment makes even more of a barrier.…

    • 1053 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays