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 thatContinue reading “Why is “retard” a slur?”
Tag Archives: mental-health
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 anContinue reading “Drug seeking behaviors”
Unapologetically Disabled 