lol knew this would happen

[Stocking Anarchy]

just pointing out that those do not mean someone is mentally challenged

oh wow did not realize Attention Deficit Disorder wasn't a learning disability, guess I will have to think of another reason why I struggled so much to finish my Biology Bachelors degree and hell all of my school life without being diagnosed or treated.

Or are you substituting the phrase mentally challenged to replace the word retarded to be pc? Cause you know, thats not really being PC. Unless you're talking about the neoboards. Then you are definitely being PC so carry on.

[Aura]

just because someone is annoying, I don't think it's fair to assume they have mental issues. They could be young... or just plain annoying.

[GreK]

Sad this is what the culture of neo has become

[zany]

oh wow did not realize Attention Deficit Disorder wasn't a learning disability, guess I will have to think of another reason why I struggled so much to finish my Biology Bachelors degree and hell all of my school life without being diagnosed or treated.

Or are you substituting the phrase mentally challenged to replace the word retarded to be pc? Cause you know, thats not really being PC. Unless you're talking about the neoboards. Then you are definitely being PC so carry on.

Eh take a chill pill man
I dunno what you're reading into my comment

is there really a pc way to call someone retarded? I don't like using that word either.

[Stocking Anarchy]

I dunno what you're reading into my comment.

I was just trying to make the point that at the current pc state society is in mentally challenged = mental disability. And that covers all learning and intellectual disabilities, not just those with an extra chromosome or those who learn slow.

So saying someone who has ADD is not someone who is mentally challenged is a prejudicial statement itself, according to todays society standards.

I don't really give a fuck to be honest but since the topic was already brought up about people getting offended over stuff or getting picked on I figured I could jump on the statement to use it as a teaching moment . An over the top HOW DARE YOU teaching moment, but those are the ones that stand out more LMAO.

Of course most people are going to understand immediately your meaning when you say mentally challenged, but with how people react now a days it is so easy to "step in it."

To be honest, whatever PC term people come up with, I am sure in a few months to a year it will turn into an insult or a joke. Currently in the psycological textbooks mental retardation has been removed and replaced with intellectual disability, since testing is based on IQ scores. But of course no one is going to accept a term that has a negative connotation in it like the word disabled.

Unless that person is said disabled person and is trying to guilt trip others into giving them attention and care due to it, then they will milk that word disabled for all that it is worth.

There is a debate topic for you, at what IQ does a person no longer have the mental capacity to manipulate others? Children begin at a very young age so I would think manipulation is our default setting. Perhaps when a person knows the other is a manipulator, instead of thinking the other "knows exactly what he is doing" and getting all pissed about it, maybe think that the manipulator has the mental capacity of a child and perhaps it won't bother you as much. You'll just know "Ok that is how this person thinks so, no more dealings with this so and so"