#intellectually disabled

[katiecalledcat]

I dont get everyone on here forgetting that some disabled people aren't in pain. I keep seeing people say things like that they forget abled people aren't in pain all the time but saying it like that means you think that all disabled people are in pain all the time and that's not true at all and I wish they'd stop leaving people like me and some of my friends out

[this-is-anti-idd]

people saying "[insert type of hatred here] is a sign of low IQ/low intelligence" no.... that is just ableism.

This is Anti-IDD!

Yeppers, very ableist and we have better words to use such as arrogant.

[artoatsblog]

Hey, you can make your favorite characters disabled and I'm not just talking about making them a cane user (although there's nothing wrong with that), you can give them anything give them dwarfism even though they're not short in cannon, make them a amputee, give them brain damage, make them a intellectually disabled person or give them cerebral palsy, you can give them anything.

[zebulontheplanet]

People are so quick to defend and criticize and attack people who say “autistic people aren’t dumb” and then someone else will follow it up by saying “but some are! Intellectually disabled people deserve to be talked about” and that quite frankly, gives me the ick.

Intellectually disabled people aren’t dumb unless they say they are. Grouping all of them into the “dumb” category is harmful. You’re further stigmatizing intellectually disabled people. Some intellectually disabled people are very smart, and like to be called smart, and like to be noticed as that. Some are average, and like to be acknowledged as that. Some are below average, and “dumb” and some like to be acknowledged as that. BUT that is their choice. That is no one’s choice but their own.

Grouping intellectually disabled people into “dumb people” is harmful. Yes, some of us embrace the word, but some of us don’t.

Stop further stigmatizing the disorder. Most people see intellectually disabled people as “dumb”. It’s time to start taking intellectually disabled people into consideration. If someone says something like that? Simply correct them on their ableist and ignorant behavior. Don’t drag intellectually disabled people into the “dumb” category. That isn’t needed.

[thisis--ableism]

simple language version (link)

Why the r-word is a slur and isn't comparable to words like "idiot"

I just got an uninformed comment on a recent ask saying "the r-word isn't a slur" with a link to an article - this is it - it is someone's personal piece, it isn't based in fact and makes claims that the special olympics doesn't explain how the r-word "is any more hurtful or bullying than 'intellectually disabled'." - so I will also be explaining those differences here.

The R-word Directly Refers To Those With IDDs

The R-word has been used in medical texts into the 2000s in reference to Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. It lacks the degree of separation from those with IDDs that much more juvenile insults such as "idiot, moron, and stupid" would hold. In short, the R-word as a slur has direct references to those with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

With That Established, What Differentiates Calling Someone The R-Word Compared To Calling Them Intellectually Disabled?

The simple answer is both evolution of language, and context. In the US during the 2010s, medical texts evolved from using the r word as a term, into using "Intellectual Disability", the reasoning behind this is that the R-word was taken away from its medical usage into the hands of non Intellectually Disabled individuals to be used as an insult against those with Intellectual Disabilities. Due to the context of the R-word being turned derogatory to directly reference those with Intellectual Disabilities, the term's usage in medical texts evolved to have a word that was not being used to insult people. This doesn't mean that "Intellectual Disabled" cannot and has not been used in derogatory manners, it just means that it lacks the derogatory background of the R-word.

A Brief History of The R-word

The R-word means "to hinder, delay, slow", now in the previous point I mentioned how evolution of language led to the removal or the R-word from medical texts. In the 19th-20th centuries, words like "imbecile, moron, idiot" were used professionally in medical texts both for those with IDDs and low intelligence; however, these words would in these early years also be used derogatorily, thus the R-word would be adopted. Now, as mentioned with the previous point, the R-word would turn derogatory, and with its specific ties to being used for those with IDDs, it would be replaced with Intellectual Disability. Even if the R-word was used less derogatively, it would have deeply rooted ties to psychiatric practices within the 20th century, practices that were often abusive, degrading, and/or prejudiced, adding onto the word being used to harm rather than help. Disabled is more neutral than the R-word, it lacks the abusive and derogatory ties the R-word has, again, this isn't to say that disabled as a term cannot and has not been used offensively, but it lacks the very deeply ingrained ableism within the R-word.

Sources: https://www.specialolympics.org/stories/impact/why-the-r-word-is-the-r-slur, https://thearc.org/blog/the-r-word-why-language-matters-and-how-we-can-do-better/, https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5802941/the-worrisome-return-of-the-r-word, https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/08/01/2013-18552/change-in-terminology-mental-retardation-to-intellectual-disability, https://www.aadmd.org/r-word-statement, https://arcmorris.org/the-r-word

[j4x-qu4cks]

Just a reminder that if you are disabled, mentally ill, neurodivergent, physically ill, whatever it is, that it is okay to rehome your pets if you cannot take care of them. In fact it’s better to do that. Do not make your pets suffer because you are suffering. They don’t deserve it.

[this-is-anti-idd-archieved]

when our then-partner went through all the webnovels we were reading and made us stop reading ones that dealt with more mature/dark topics because "you can't process that kind of stuff" (complex and/or unhealthy relationships and morally grey characters). we can!! we need to think about it a lot sometimes or it takes longer to figure out what's going on but we should be able to read what we want!

i don't. exactly know if we have an intellectual disability (we do have developmental i don't know if that's related or the same. or if we have intellectual and developmental?), but they told us we did (in exactly those words, and in many implied actions, and in a lot of things they said about how capable we were) and whether we do or not i think saying that we're not allowed to read mature content because we're disabled and can't tell what's right or wrong is um. bad.

we aren't with them anymore. for a lot of reasons but especially things like this.

this is Anti-IDD!

Even if you may not have an IDD, the rhetoric they pulled affects many people w/IDDs! And the way that your then partner was using IDDs to excuse that behavior is awful! I'm sorry for that anon. I'm glad you're not with them anymore.

[intersexcat-tboy]

Not knowing how to do something isn't the same as refusing. I'm so tired of lack of knowledge being taken as defiance or obstinacy