Respect is the new ‘r’ word
DR RADICA MAHASE
LAST week I wrote about an incident in which the mother of a little boy with autism went to the supermarket and an elderly shopper told her, “Why don’t you keep your retarded child at home?”
To be as direct as possible, for both the old and young to understand – that R word, the word retarded – it is a bad word. Generally, we assume that everyone knows this but given that people with autism are still being called retarded, we can instead assume that not everyone is educated or smart enough, have common-sense or respectful enough to know that the word retarded is offensive, hurtful, demeaning and disrespectful.
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