Question for the normal people. Have you ever made fun of somebody with a mild disability?

Question

Why did you do it? I wanna know why. Did you do it for fun?? Did you ever use the word "retarded" as a insult? Don't you even have feelings or are you just heartless??Real serious question. Definitely no joke.

Answer 1

i'm not gonna walk up and start throwing eggs at somebody cuz they're slow.

but yeah if i'm with my friends and someones acting dumb they might get called a retard. does that mean i have anything against people with mental retardation? no.

when theres someone standing on a street corner wearing headphones and holding a sign upside down, i'm gonna be thinking it.

Answer 2

Even a person without any disability will at some point in their lives be forced to face insult from someone. As a child I was picked on and teased and I am still not sure what caused it, passive personality maybe. People that pick on others have been picked on themselves. Looking back on my childhood I feel real empathy for those guys. I can't say that I like or respect them, but I do feel that they were not naturally mean. I believe their behavior was a systematic issue that had been learned from their previous experience(s). To me, that's just sad. I would be lying if I said that I have never projected bad feelings on someone else as would most people. I have apologized and as an adult I treat others for the most part, very well. Bullies, now that's a different story. A lot of bullies act this way b/c they are masking a disability and that's there way of coping. Your question proposes not only the issue projection and reaction, but human nature. Unfortunately, there is never a perfectly white or black answer to that question.

Answer 3

I saw to people, a couple, probably 25 years old coming out of Wal-Mart watching a guy with a hunched back, a regular, He's real bad. They run into us while turning and gawking at him. They turned at us and laughed and said "did you see that creep" I said "yes I did" as I put my cane down to walk, I have severe Osteo-arthritis in the severe degenerative stages and have a hard time walking.
I said as I looked at them, Oh! I thought you meant those two that were making fun of that poor disabled man there, but, that was the two of you wasn't it?

I told them "how could you be so rude" they put their heads down and left.

Answer 4

I think it's a complex of children in society. Kids only do what they have grown up around or have felt pressured to say.

Just like in elementary school, if a child that is different or nonconforming to his peers, he is more likely than not to be picked on. This is only because society does unconsciosuly mend us to believe that there is only one RIGHT way to be, and if you fall short of that expectation then you're doomed.
Children make fun of other children because they want to be seen as 'cool' or be noticed by the other kids. They don't really have the emotional capacity to understand the harm they are doing.

But.. if you're refering to people who are over the age of 15 and still acting immaturely, then they obviously do not have any morals or sense of USEFUL parental guidance.

There will always be people like this, and it is a very terribly sad shortcoming of society.

Answer 5

Define 'normal' A person who would attack a person with a disability are not quite as 'normal' as the person they are degrading now are they? We all have our 'disabilities'..physical or mental. These kind of actions towards another human being are very cruel. I'm sorry if you or someone you love has endured such ignorance.
Keep smiling! :)

Answer 6

No i haven't, I continually attempt to handle human beings the way i could choose to be dealt with. My mothers and dads raised me to be respectful in the direction of rather everyone, no count what.And to stand up for those no longer able to realize this for themselves, regardless of if it motives me to lose acquaintances through fact those are not the persons you would be acquaintances with anyhow.....I found out this youthful and have practiced it in the time of my finished existence.

Answer 7

i have used them as a example of someone in name calling but as to stand there and take the micky i find pure cruel and i do try not too use them cause if any thing there special i reckon they know no diffrent and my heart goes out to them i had a sis who died of spineabiffadda and for this reason also i think the parents are medal winners

Answer 8

first , no one is normal ok ?
second why would u insult disabled person ??
third, is it something u r proud of to ask people about it