Weird question about disablity abuse

[Blessingsdragon1]

Do kids ie 14/15/16 still use the word spastic ?

I haven’t heart it in teaching and we do hear lots of what is said. In fact, I haven’t heard it since I was at school myself.

Only if they've got it from an ignorant adult.

Yes. They pick it up from their parents who grew up using it.

I used to use as a child, picked up from the playground, no idea of the links to disability.

A lot of us grew up, learnt, and stopped using it but some will have not learnt or learnt and not care and will continue to use it.

I use a wheelchair and I haven’t heard anyone use spastic outside of a medical setting for years (it’s in my diagnosis) - it’s more common in the real world for people to tell me off for using it as a medical term.

I do hear kids using spaz as an insult though which is short for spastic. And things ending in -tard.

Retard and Tard seems to have replaced Spastic. Often used as an insult by those who have no idea about disabilities.

sadly disability abuse is still a thing. Spaz id used more that spastic now,

sadly its a lot more common than people think,

I hate the term ‘special’ it’s cuts me to the quick when I hear it as my son is disabled. Someone once said the r word to me and I hope she’ll never use it again as I explained it is in my ds diagnosis & he is not to be used as an insult. I just tell people calmly, it just needs teaching as some people haven’t a clue what damage words do.

I'm 22 and we never used it at school. We used 'retard' i heard one child say 'spaz' once and no one knew what it meant.

I would say it's on the wane. I have to teach 11 year olds about something that involves muscle spasms ever year. 10 years ago they all giggled/reacted to the word 'spasm' because it's similar to 'spastic' but most of them haven't heard the word before (or have got more mature, but that's unlikely!)

Sorry I mean more recently they don't react to the word.