04-09-2009, 02:26 PM
It's just good to be conscious of it ya know? I'm sure everyone's guilty of it once in a while, but the more you know, the more you can watch out for it. Special Olympics is just a good organization all around when it comes to really promoting acceptance, but you never know who has a family member or knows someone with an intellectual diability when you let the slur fly so it's easy to offend someone, even if you aren't trying to. I worked with learning disabled kids when I was in high school, and the experience was really rewarding for me