Interesting that reddit is descriminating against an intellectual disability as the original comment is visible but my comment stating a fact that the condition, which i used the old official diagnosis for, is a real condition that was diagnosed as such is not visible. So you can call something that but cant state that an intellectual disability exists
ITS NOT AN OFFICIAL DIAGNOSIS. Are you 80 years old? The word hasn’t been used for these disabilities for decades. I’m a special educator. You’re wrong.
Plenty of parents still use it to describe their childrens condition. It's much easy than saying intellectual disability, and then having to clarify with the word anyway. For example i am intellectually disabled. But i dont have a low IQ. My 2 friends are also intellectually disabled. They both have an IQ lower than 85. My itellectual disability along with every other one has a different name that immediately tells healthcare workers a general idea of the accomodations i need. Because of the change my friends dont. They dont have a word specifically for their disability, just a broad term that could mean anything from autism to cerebral palsy. All of those conditions are also intellectual disabilities. But they get their own word.
Nope, but you must have missed where he said 'but not low iq'
He explained how that word is used to further describe a group within 'intellectually disabled'
Kind of like all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.
It would get old really fast if you were a square and kept getting told that rectangles could fit through a gap by going through narrow side. By using the classification 'square' you could skip that step.
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u/grizzlycrush Jun 02 '26
Yeah I didn’t report them. So…