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Originally Posted by DGTess
And while I'm no expert on the full spectrum of intellectual disabilities, I can imagine cases where one with an intellectual disability is not retarded. Off the top of my head, I pose dyslexia. Dyslexics have an intellectual disability (or "challenge", if you prefer), but most are NOT retarded. Some autistic individuals, IIRC, have intellectual disabilities, but are not retarded. Others are.
So lumping them all together to make a case for social engineering based on labels is, in my mind, somewhat suspect. It seems a case of finding "facts" to "prove" something.
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Exactly - from what I've heard about autism, many people who have it are anything BUT retarded and often have very high IQs. It's sharing the knowledge with the world in general that is the problem.