Originally Posted by Taminy
At the risk of offending (which is not my intention), I would like to make a gentle suggestion that we use a word other than "retarded". This has come up in more than one post now and while I'm sure that no one here is intending to denigrate people with disabilities, calling something retarded implicitly carries the idea that people with cognitive disabilities are somehow..."less".

Hmm...the use of the word didn't bother me. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with policing expressions that people use.

Val