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This term is based on an old term for people with intellectual disabilities (ID), and it perpetuates the bias that people with ID inherently cannot be trusted to make good choices because they aren& #39;t "intelligent" and/or make immoral choices. The @nytimes should do better. https://twitter.com/NYT_first_said/status/1330640270430527488">https://twitter.com/NYT_first...
About 100 years ago, terms like "idiot," "imbecile," and "moron" were used to differentiate between different classes of the "feeble minded," based on the now-discredited idea of "mental age."
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Feeble mindedness was a catch all for people regarded as less than hereditarily desirable, from poor people to people of color to petty criminals to (certain) immigrants -- and also to people considered immoral because they had sex (or were raped). https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-sinister-history-of-the-word-moron-explained/amp">https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the...
And even today the legacy of these ideas are used to deny people fundamental rights. http://nosmag.org/mental-age-theory-hurts-people-with-intellectual-disabilities/">https://nosmag.org/mental-ag...
In fact, Buck v. Bell, the U.S. Supreme Court case which established that the government may forcibly sterilize people identified as feeble minded, has never been overturned.
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Today we still live with this legacy. Children with intellectual and other cognitive disabilities are shunted into substandard and segregated education. https://allmeansall.org.au/research/ ">https://allmeansall.org.au/research/...
Although we are making real progress and may end the 14(c) program soon, adults with ID are still routinely shunted into vocational and "pre"-vocational programs where they earn pennies an hour for work they are required to do.
http://www.vox.com/platform/amp/identities/2020/3/16/21178197/people-with-disabilities-minimum-wage">https://www.vox.com/platform/...
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People don& #39;t get to live where they would choose to. http://thearc.org/theres-no-place-like-home">https://thearc.org/theres-no...
And they are even at high risk of losing the rights other people take for granted. http://www.thenation.com/article/society/britney/">https://www.thenation.com/article/s...
Meanwhile, people with intellectual disabilities face some of the highest COVID risks. http://Www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/health/covid-developmental-disabilities.amp.html">https://Www.nytimes.com/2020/11/1...
The risk is even higher when we consider (see "There& #39;s No Place Like Home," above) that people with intellectual disabilities are likely to be forced into congregate care to get needed services. http://montgomerycal.wordpress.com/2020/07/09/why-we-need-to-get-people-out-of-congregate-care">https://montgomerycal.wordpress.com/2020/07/0...
It gets worse than that. Accessible information for people with intellectual disabilities -- plain language and easy read, for instance, social stories, etc. -- is possible, but lacking.
Most augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices don& #39;t offer pandemic vocab.
Most augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices don& #39;t offer pandemic vocab.
So here we have a population that has historically been segregated, abused, and neglected in state facilities on the grounds that they are defective and bad people.
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They have been forced to work for little or no wage on the colony farms and in the sheltered workshops. They have been denied the education and the information, the resources and the freedom to distance, all by our society. It& #39;s all tangled up with ablism, racism, and classism.
