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Why is “retard” a slur?

Like many other people, I got lost in Facebook reels the other day.  A woman had given birth to a child who was deaf, and her husband left her.  He said he wouldn’t have married her if she knew that she would give birth to a “retard”.   I’m going to skip the obvious fallacy that…

ASL Interpreters

Warning: I may come off as making some slight political rants on this one. I would have never thought this was political, but here we are. My goal with this post is to educate and hopefully take the politics out of this. I was playing on X the other day and came across the most…

Drug seeking behaviors

This nation has a serious problem with drugs, especially opioids. According to the CDC, around 250 people a day die of drug overdoses and around 75% of those deaths involved at least one opioid such as fentanyl. I saw it first hand when I was teaching, although thankfully none of my kids died of an…

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