There was a conversation awhile back about how any term used to describe someone with a disability eventually becomes a slur and history tends to back that up, but I’d say ‘special needs’ is probably about the least offensive qualifier we have today.
I did theatre in high school (a decade ago) and we performed the straight play The Boys Next Door, a story about four intellectually disabled men living together with the help of their caretaker. The original show was written circa 1988, and uses “retarded” as the word to describe the men. Obviously for a high school play, we couldn’t use that.
Our director interfaced with a local group to determine what the correct terminology should be, and over the course of rehearsal, we changed the phrase from mentally challenged to intellectually challenged to intellectually disabled. It was important to us to make sure we got it right, but it was also surprising that the term changed very quickly.
Not sure what the politically correct term is nowadays, I try and avoid the R slur. Point is, this is a dumb greentext among the many I have saved; I Guess I could have picked a different one.
‘Special needs kid’ is a surprising lack of hate-speech for anon though. It doesn’t make it okay for us since most look at it from the distance and we don’t reproduce its’ culture there. But observing these pieces knowing the context is a niche way of having fun.
This one doesn’t lose much from omitting that part though. Seems like anon didn’t come up with a worthy punchline and just dropped it here, being in a delusion that it’d make the greentext work. A fabric softener in a school setting, what?
This story could’ve taken another turn if a kid tried to fish it with an improvised hook and scaley anon was so bored and depressed about the kid’s effort so he proceeded to make some fake bites, this becoming their daily tradition. Alone in his bowl, anon finds a weird, deadly relationship with a kid, and asks itself what would happen if it’d bite for real? Would it know when it’s time to risk it, or finally go? I believe many anons questioned themselves about euthanasia and if they’d find courage to do it before they’d turn into a dead weight on their relatives’ backs and not enjoying life at all, so this could’ve started an interesting conversation even there, while overwhelming the use of a special kid character somewhere in the middle.
I think we all grew up with one or two non-verbal, watched at all times, screaming in the halls kid in our school. What the fuck would you want to call a kid like that? They don’t know or care what you call them. That’s what comes to mind for me when special needs is mentioned. Not autistic, or ADHD. Full blown mental retardation.
ableism?
There was a conversation awhile back about how any term used to describe someone with a disability eventually becomes a slur and history tends to back that up, but I’d say ‘special needs’ is probably about the least offensive qualifier we have today.
For 4chan, that’s like a miracle.
The euphemism treadmill
I did theatre in high school (a decade ago) and we performed the straight play The Boys Next Door, a story about four intellectually disabled men living together with the help of their caretaker. The original show was written circa 1988, and uses “retarded” as the word to describe the men. Obviously for a high school play, we couldn’t use that.
Our director interfaced with a local group to determine what the correct terminology should be, and over the course of rehearsal, we changed the phrase from mentally challenged to intellectually challenged to intellectually disabled. It was important to us to make sure we got it right, but it was also surprising that the term changed very quickly.
Not sure what the politically correct term is nowadays, I try and avoid the R slur. Point is, this is a dumb greentext among the many I have saved; I Guess I could have picked a different one.
It is called the euphemism treadmill.
special needs sounds more like an insult tbh
LOOKS INSIDE 4CHAN @ ABLEISM
‘Special needs kid’ is a surprising lack of hate-speech for anon though. It doesn’t make it okay for us since most look at it from the distance and we don’t reproduce its’ culture there. But observing these pieces knowing the context is a niche way of having fun.
This one doesn’t lose much from omitting that part though. Seems like anon didn’t come up with a worthy punchline and just dropped it here, being in a delusion that it’d make the greentext work. A fabric softener in a school setting, what?
This story could’ve taken another turn if a kid tried to fish it with an improvised hook and scaley anon was so bored and depressed about the kid’s effort so he proceeded to make some fake bites, this becoming their daily tradition. Alone in his bowl, anon finds a weird, deadly relationship with a kid, and asks itself what would happen if it’d bite for real? Would it know when it’s time to risk it, or finally go? I believe many anons questioned themselves about euthanasia and if they’d find courage to do it before they’d turn into a dead weight on their relatives’ backs and not enjoying life at all, so this could’ve started an interesting conversation even there, while overwhelming the use of a special kid character somewhere in the middle.
You do realize this is a 4chan greentext /c/, right…?
One can make the conscious adult decision to not propagate greatest that are abliest and, frankly speaking, not even funny.
This is a place to share actually entertaining content, not whatever this bottom of the barrel attempt at humor is…
I think we all grew up with one or two non-verbal, watched at all times, screaming in the halls kid in our school. What the fuck would you want to call a kid like that? They don’t know or care what you call them. That’s what comes to mind for me when special needs is mentioned. Not autistic, or ADHD. Full blown mental retardation.
I suppose so, but this is Anon we’re talking about.
As is tradition.