Aspies For Freedom

I know this technically isn't of interest to the majority, if not all, of the people here, but thought I'd post it...

http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/27022008/24/store...r-row.html

Well, I don't think anyones ever got pissed off by that damn show THIS quickly.

A record, and hopefully a nail in the franchises coffin.

what he said

Retards indeed..

He's on Big Brother so he's what? a Janitor, a Rent Boy?

I'm so honoured to be offended by Royalty.

*morphs into Evil flardox*
may the bastard be fried in his own semen!

seirously though

If he works with disabled kids why on earth would he let this ignorant B.S fall out of his mouth?

I imagine if you work with the disabled long enough, you either love em or hate em

it's how the human mind works.

well surely if you don't like people with disabilitiesyou don't work with them?

anyway ther is NO excusing what he said it is disgusting.

Seriously. How could you work with people you hated? Or, maybe more correctly, who annoyed you?

It does depend on connotation. For example, the sentence, "Jamie is mentally retarded", wouldn't be offensive. It's an older term, but it's descriptive, not a slur. But when you call all autistic people "retards", you're using a derivative of the original term which was always quite offensive... not to mention being quite ignorant, because autistic people aren't all "retarded". Usually not, actually.

I actually like the term "retarded", if you drop the connotation. Literally, it means "slowed"--which is exactly what it is; a child's development stretched out over a longer timetable, so that he learns to speak at four, learns to tie his shoes at ten, learns to read at twelve... "Developmentally delayed", the new term, doesn't have quite the right meaning to me. It's as though development is paused, rather than slowed. Even a kid in the severe range isn't paused--he's learning; he's just got his own schedule for it.

Anyway, the way he meant it was pretty offensive, and I guess they thought they'd make the show more dramatic by leaving it in, not caring that there's probably an autism mom out there watching the show and crying because yet another idiot human just called her precious child a retard.

I'm gonna go shop at Lowe's now.

I was wondering that as well

yes there is that difference between the medical terminology and insult

I don't know I still don't really like the word probably from all the misuse of it over the years.

I have to agree it makes me sick and angry the way these people think that just because we have a diferent wiring of the brain we can be treated like garbage

Have fun!!!

I also wish that Big Brother would be given a mercy killing. It has become boring and tedious with no redeeming value.

AMEN!!! SISTER P!!!

While they're at it, they ought to give Survivor the chop. It is such a pretentious and inane show.

survivor.....

wasn't that the show where they had to eat a bulls erm... balls?

'Reality' TV in general is repellant, tacky and annoying.

Bread and circuses right?

Exactly.