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Term `mentally retarded' becoming fighting words.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
PHILADELPHIA _ To thousands of people, "mentally" and "retarded" are fighting words.
For years, people who are mentally retarded, their families, and professionals who work with them have been wrangling over what to call people with IQs below 70.
Advocates for change argue that the word "retarded" _ or more often "retard" _ is now a school-yard taunt, a word too hurtful to be applied to people who want and deserve respect.
"That's my pet peeve in life," said Roseann Mosakowski, a Pottsgrove, Pa., woman whose 15-year-old son suffered a brain injury as an infant and now falls into the category. "I hate those words. I hate them with a passion."
On the other side are people who contend that "mentally retarded" has a more precise meaning than the alternatives and is used in laws and funding regulations. Why add confusion, they ask, when many people still don't know the difference between mental retardation and mental illness? Plus, they say, any new word will soon become stigmatized, too. All this energy would be better spent trying to improve the image of people with ...
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