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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Let's not pretend verifiably 'slow' people with intellectual disabilities don't exist please. Pretending these people don't exist or acting like the severity of their symptoms aren't absolutely something that they need help with doesn't make these issues go away. It makes them worse. It hasn't worked for any other issue where people didn't want to call a spade a spade.

It hasn't worked for any neurodivergent people for the last 40 years where parents and society wanted to pretend everyone was the same despite people drowning and needing help for fear of being 'different' or oh no their brain and body work fine no medications or doctors for us thanks!

Being different is okay. Everyone needs help in different ways. It's shit like the above that causes these kids to think they are.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So just because they failed a test they now are condemned to be labeled as retarded?

I know multiple people who were told they were retarded back when they were in public school but they all went to college and were very successful. That doesn't mean it came easy as learning can be harder for some people. What is important is that they had the drive to push though. I also know people who are supposedly smart who are terrible at making good choices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It sounds like the tests confirmed they had IDs and got the help they needed.

This is exactly how it's supposed to work lol.