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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Yes, so does "batshit crazy." Neither of these are phrases that we would encourage people to call their children. The "adoption community" is pretty obviously NOT mental health professionals, and they shouldn't have to be, but they should be aware of what they're saying. And perhaps, more importantly, be aware that their children will read it or something like it one day.
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The adoption community includes adoptive parents, birthparents, adoptive children, and all professionals who work with them, including in a big way mental health professionals. No one--but no one--cares if you think it's a proper term. Sometimes intense terms must be used, and not only in the adoption field, to describe the depth of what has been done to some children. Although no one uses these terms around the children, they are certainly used because if you had seen what many of us have seen, you would not be able to come up with a synonym for it. If no one has tried to do that in the last several years of selecting better names for certain terms (i.e., "mentally handicapped" instead of retarded), it''s probably not going to happen.
Until then, DF, you can go blathering on as usual about a field you know nothing about and making a fool of yourself as well as the joke of private messages ("OMG, go to the ________ Forum, get a load of Drole's verbal diarrhea.")
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