re: #363 Gus 802

I’m trying to think back. My ex-gf was going for her master in special ed and I think I used the word mentally challenged or disabled. I received a lecture and that led to me giving her a lecture about “keeping up” with the ever changing nomenclature. There’s no telling what the politically acceptable terminology is for many of these mental states are in the current environment but you can rest assured that if you get it wrong, you’ll hear about it. The buzzword went from disabled to challenged. In the end I just gave up.

“I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn’t poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me deprived was a bad image, I was underprivileged. Then they told me underprivileged was overused, I was disadvantaged. I still don’t have a dime. But I sure have a great vocabulary.”
-Jules Feiffer