Do you feel a person with speech problems /walk different considered retarded?
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My son has a moderate to severe speech problem, but he is right on track with the rest of his classmates physically and academically, but i agree he is misjudged and people should know that a speech problem has nothing to do with retardation or any other impairment it is simply a speech problem
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To determine your feelings could take time as they have to familiarise themselves with you and your experiences. This take time a lot longer than you have given. If you can't answer it yourself how can they answer it after a few sessions?\n\nLearning disabilities however could be discovered by someone else in schools whether primary, secondary or colleges. People are appointed there to carry out little tests to determine this. Again it depends on the nature of the disability. Consult your doctor on this matter again.\nRequesting definite answers. Remember it is your well-being and health at stake! Control the situation. \n\nYou don't sound happy with your current psychiatrist maybe you should ask to be referred to someone else as the process needs an element of comfort-ability between you two.
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I actually feel that they are dumber than the rest of us sometimes. This is obviously a false belief that has stuck in my mind because the prejudices my mom had while I was growing up, but truth is a person's hair colour is not an indication of intelligence or anything else really.
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Do you mean walk like you are crippled???\nI guess you would walk like I do in real life...\nI walk with a limp, but I did have back surgery and am disabled for life, so it is no joke...\nWait till you have a disability one day and wish you were well again...
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Could you maybe have Asperger's syndrome? Social apathy is one symptom...\n\nAsperger's Syndrome is a newly recognized neurological disorder. It shares many of the same characteristics of autism, although people with Asperger's Syndrome do not have the accompanying disabilities. Those afflicted with this syndrome have difficulty understanding what those around them think and feel. As a result of this, they often behave inappropriately in social situations, or do things that may appear to be unkind or callous. Many Asperger sufferers have a difficult time in planning and coping with change despite average or above-average intelligence. This manifests itself as a notable lack of "common sense".\n\nTwo things with this answer:\n    (a) It's only a suggestion, I don't know you and could therefore never presume to diagnose you based on the tiny bit of info you have shared... \n    (b) If you think you may have Asperger's, it does not mean you are abnormal! Social abilities/interest are on a continuous scale/spectrum, with the low end being people who are very social and high end being autism/Asperger's. Most people with Asperger's do not feel they have a diability...\n\nIf you think there is a remote possibility you may 'have' this, I would suggest searching 'dsm-iv asperger's' in yahoo to see the criteria for a diagnosis...\n\n\nAll the best!
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Well, depending on what kind of "mentally challenged" you mean, the answer could be yes or no.\n\nThere are several kinds of neurological disorders that result in a brain that is simply differently wired, with IQs in the normal range or higher. Because the brain is extremely adaptable, it will often compensate for deficits in one area by making other areas work more efficiently. That's why a blind person often has very good hearing: He doesn't have any visual input to process; so his brain specializes on the next most informative sense: Hearing.\n\nSome disorders are like that. ADHD is associated with originality; autism with very good visual-spatial skills; bipolar disorder with creative talent, especially in the arts. So people with these disorders are also more likely to have talents that people without them don't have. People with these disorders look at them as mixed blessings, or even as gifts.\n\nI don't know what it's like to be anyone but myself; so I don't know which disorders other than my own (Asperger Syndrome, a mild form of autism) fit into the category I just described. And I do consider AS to be a gift, in some ways. I'm socially clumsy, and I can't tolerate some sensory input; but I also have very good logical reasoning skills, I approach problems in original ways, and I have quite a lot of talents in my areas of special interest.\n\nBut all in all, people with psychological, neurological, or biological isorders that affect their mental functioning have one big problem: They are square pegs trying to fit into round holes. They are not the majority; so the world is not designed for them. It could be prejudice or the need for accomodations or some aspect of the disorder itself; but being ill-suited for the world you live in can be a difficult thing. Even your talents may not be the sort of thing the world is looking for.\n\nRegarding people with low IQs and severe disorders with no positive aspects. Individual personalities may indeed make them feel superior to others, just as neurologically average people may feel superior to people in general, whether their IQs are higher or lower than their own; but that seems to be a personality trait unconnected to any disorder.\n\nFrom what I can tell, all but the most profoundly affected are aware that they are different; but in a loving family, with good support and the accomodations they need to live in the world, they need not feel inferior or unwanted. These folks have the same goal that any of us have--the pursuit of happiness, in whatever form that takes for them; and why should a happy life ever be called an inferior one?
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Good question. I'm curious to see some of the answers myself. I 'outgrew' my dyslexia, but I still have some problems, and I have been curious if they are related. I am terrible at math for one, I still do have some problems reading, usually only when I read out loud. When I go to jot down a phone number I will sometimes mix up the numbers. (write down the last bit backwards, or inverted). Sometimes I don't seem to make sense to people, it sounds right in my head, but I have a hard time getting my point across. I feel like maybe their is a short circuit somewhere, and things get mixed up and backward on the way out.
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HELL NAW,CAN'T READ, SPELL , SPEAK LOOKS LIKE HE IS SLOW
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Don't feel like you have to be like everyone else.  I'm slightly dyslexic (or more precisely, dysgraphic; I have problems writing, but not reading).  God made us this way to teach us something, and to trust him in the midst of our weaknesses.  \n\nWe shouldn't think we're less valuable because there are some things we can't do very well.  I'm sure there are some things you do very well.  For example, you express yourself more clearly than many people do on Yahoo! Answers--And that's with writing.  So I imagine you can communicate pretty well verbally.  That's a good gift to have.  Thank God for it.
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I see your point with retards. After all, they're not going to know if you're laughing at them. \n\nBut paraplegics and quadriplegics are generally just regular people who have had accidents or something else bad happen to them. They deserve as much respect as the next person.\n\nI'm a little fuzzy about midgets; never met one.
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A crippled person has a physical disability, A spastic person has a nerve disorder, a retarded person is mentally challenged, all three of the above are disabled people, an idiot is a person who cant tell the difference.
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It's easy to say "I'm blind to handicaps", but I don't think it's honest.\n\nYes, I notice the handicap, but I also look beyond it to the person to see what's going on with them.  The better contact I make with them, the less their "challenge" challenges me.
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Some forms of autism cause a person to be extremely intelligent in some aspects of life and below average in others, i.e. high self-esteem versus the inability to articulate sentences.
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Have you consider a tutor? You may also want to get tested in that perhaps you may have a learning disorder. That doesn't mean you are dumb it means you have a disability. If you are truly trying your best and still coming up short it may be time to seek help from a professional. You will be surprised how much pressure that will take off of you and how much support you will receive. Right now you probably feel so alone and so small when there is no need to. Help is just a call away. I wish you the best.
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How dare you insult retarded people by comparing them to those of us people so lazy they'd rather be messing around on this site rather than doing chores and working..... Most retarded people I know are sweet, hard-working, good people who just need more time and compassion from teachers to learn how to do things.
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I'm sure your not the only one but u are talking about two kind of people which are very different from each other: \n\n1. people who can't learn English . so i wonder why would anyone feel bothered by people who can not learn??? do u also feel annoyed by people who can't learn other things??? well i know a person mentally not capable of learning another language and can't even formulate a sentence making  sense in his own language . should i feel bothered by this person or should i feel sorry for him and try to help him not because of his incapacity but because he is a human being?? .\n\n2. people who choose not to learn English . well about this kind of people i think this people are making a huge mistake . the English language is the most important language in the world just like Spanish is the second most important . in my opinion anyone who chooses not to learn any of the two having the capacity to do it  is making a huge mistake . \n\nabout people looking for a job and not finding it because they do not speak spanish , perhaps they were not hired because of their bad grammar and not because of they not speaking another language .
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Yes, most of the time.  I have found out that now being disabled, that because of a disability, people pass you by and won't give you a second look.  I had a friend who has kept hitting on me for the past 13 yrs, I'm married and she knew it but was still hitting on me so I'd leave my wife for her.  Once I was hurt and now declared disabled, she wants no part of me what so ever.  And I tried to go to her, because of my wife and I have been fighting because of my disability.  I feel invisible too from everyone my friends have abandoned me and most of my family(mother, brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles) have basically shut me out, like I'm an outcast.  I want to scream at the top of my lungs sometimes, "I am still here, I am the same person as before, but now with limitations."