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I am very grateful for this website. I have a daughter who is mentally challenged, and for years when I would hear the r word, I felt like that person had punched me in the face and I would never say anything! Just in the last few years I made a promise to my daughter that if I heard someone use the r word I would speak up!!! even though she doesn’t understand at all I have to be her voice!!
Someone pinned one of my disabilities advocacy pins on Pinterest and changed the comment underneath to be derogatory. After commenting back and forth, he turned around. He said that he did a Goggle search on “retard” and was disgusted by what he saw. I did the same thing on YouTube, Google and Razzle and became angry, sad, digusted and sickened by my results. This has become such a part of our culture and needs to stop.
Thank you I got a learning Disability and asperger’s syndrome I hate it when people say retarded or retard in front of me I’m so posting this on my facebook
I have to take much of what I said back because you are right. The stares are just people shocked because they don’t normally see people like a kid with down sydrome. Thank You! =)
Hi, my name is Isabella. I’m 12 years old and I have a brother with down syndrome. Hearing any comments like idiot or freak or monster drives me crazy because just a change in his looks makes him a retard? I really love this organization because I can easily relate. Just walking into a store having everyone immediately stare acting as if I was holding a bomb about to blow the place up! I see fake smile’s as if they were apologizing for the rude looks but it hurts. Although I must admit some people show more respect than others. Eli, (my younger brother) may not understand but I do and I appreciate everything you’ve done. Every year I visit the special Olympics and volunteer enjoying every minute of it, watching all these people thinking their different although they could beat any other guy in a race. And that’s why I love it because they realize that whatever other people say can eat it because I bet they’re not half as good as they are at the long jump. And I always look forward to volunteering at the Valentines Dance for people with disabilities. It’s romantic and the most recent dance a couple got engaged! My brother may never understand or be offended but I am even though those not-so-silent whispers aren’t for me. I feel very strongly about the way people treat him and that’s why I support everything about this organization and I want to thank you.