Is 'retarded' the same, then? Something that is retarded has been slowed down or impeded. A person who is called retarded is called that because they're developmentally 'delayed'.
When I was a kid, it was certainly a term used by the medical/psychological establishment. My school had special classes set aside for what it termed the TMR and EMR kids, or the trainable/educable mentally retarded.
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Date: 2007-06-16 03:00 am (UTC)When I was a kid, it was certainly a term used by the medical/psychological establishment. My school had special classes set aside for what it termed the TMR and EMR kids, or the trainable/educable mentally retarded.