Retarded. That’s what we called folks back in the day when I was an MR education major at Southwest Texas State. MR = Mental retardation. I was actually a member of a group called TARs: Teens Aid the Retarded. But people started frowning on calling kids retarded. So, it went from retarded to mentally handicapped. […]
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