I wouldn't recommend "Googling" this. The pictures are oddly disturbing. Or at least I found them such (for whatever reason).
Yeah, by the time I grew up (late 90s through 2010-ish), "retard" and "gay" were just shitty insults we called each other in the schoolyard... More in the sense of "that's gay" (bad) or "that's retarded/don't be a retard", etc...
Even the people I would suggest, with hindsight, were gay/bisexual/in some cases definitely autistic participated in that exchange...
I don't really remember much "offence taking" until some time after 2010...
Then again, I was bullied mercilessly, all throughout school, hated nearly every minute, was extremely socially... Isolated, suffered from (actually pretty terrible) rumours that I was gay, for six months of Grade 11 (what is that in the US, "junior year"..?), and have literal PTSD from some of the shit that happened, in my life, during that time, so...
I may not be the most "objective" source. I did (and said) some fairly regrettable shit, to try and fit in. Didn't work, but... It was better than being bashed up again, or having my shit stolen, or... Yeah, let's just say, school was not a good time...
And I was neither particular "retarded" nor gay. So there's that.
Apparently so (as they also mentioned in the replies, I note):
https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/lissencephaly#:~:text=Lissencephaly%2C%20which%20literally%20means%20%22smooth,normal%20sized%20head%20at%20birth.
I wouldn't recommend "Googling" this. The pictures are oddly disturbing. Or at least I found them such (for whatever reason).
Yeah, by the time I grew up (late 90s through 2010-ish), "retard" and "gay" were just shitty insults we called each other in the schoolyard... More in the sense of "that's gay" (bad) or "that's retarded/don't be a retard", etc...
Even the people I would suggest, with hindsight, were gay/bisexual/in some cases definitely autistic participated in that exchange...
I don't really remember much "offence taking" until some time after 2010...
Then again, I was bullied mercilessly, all throughout school, hated nearly every minute, was extremely socially... Isolated, suffered from (actually pretty terrible) rumours that I was gay, for six months of Grade 11 (what is that in the US, "junior year"..?), and have literal PTSD from some of the shit that happened, in my life, during that time, so...
I may not be the most "objective" source. I did (and said) some fairly regrettable shit, to try and fit in. Didn't work, but... It was better than being bashed up again, or having my shit stolen, or... Yeah, let's just say, school was not a good time...
And I was neither particular "retarded" nor gay. So there's that.