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Lisa said
Thank you!
Suzie - Lily's mom said
We just went and talked to a classroom of highschool kids about why you shouldn’t say the “R” word. Hopefully it got to one person!
gracie said
Finding this website makes my heart so happy. My daughter is intellectually challenged and she has been hurt so many times by people using the “R” word. Thank you for what you are doing!!
Gracie
Dr. Townsend said
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for initiating the Ban the “R” word campaign. My little brother, the dearest person in the world to me for 50 years now, suffers an intellectual disability. I thought that no one else would ever know how deeply hurtful that word has been to him, and to me, throughout our lives.
Words hurt! Stop the “R” word!
Kathleen said
Thanks a lot for starting this website! It’s a comfort to know that others agree with me about the careless and hurtful use of the words retard and retarded in everyday life. it’s insensitive, hurtful, and stupid to just toss it around like pancakes at IHOP. Can I have an Amen here?
darlene said
i just did a search for something like this after hearing a young co-worker say she was retarded and was doing what she was doing the retarded way. it infuriated me, but i didn’t want to make a scene. i have a son with autism, and we work in grocery store where she could have easily offended a customer. i’m hoping to bring awareness to my workplace
Melanie said
Thankz for the website..
mama mara said
It’s about time! Thank you for helping to fight this epidemic of hate speech.
ms_teacher said
Thank you!!
Jessica said
thank you!!!
Debbie said
My son with Down Syndrome thanks you, and so does his mother. This site has me feeling very hopeful that we can erase this word.
Zheng Yi said
Bless you
valmg said
I just accidentally found your site. I think it’s an important message that you’re trying to send here and very worthwhile. I have a son with Down Syndrome and the widespread misuse of this word is absolutely infuriating as well as heartbreaking. Parents must teach their children to be open minded and compassionate. And all people should think before they speak.
Phil said
Thank you so much for taking the time to put all of this together. I added the icon to my Blog!
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Burg said
This is awesome! I’m so happy to put this button on my blog!! Thanks for caring!
Larissa Portillo said
okay so i just watched this video and
i have been talkin to the school becasue i am in student council
but if there is any we can help please email me i am in the 9th grade and i am wantin to help u guys ban the r word so please email me back
zacksmom said
thank you for your site & your products!
ever since I was a child I have Hated the ‘R’ word, and have Always taught my 7 children
that it is a word Not Allowed in our home or out of their mouths…
to me it is as bad as a swear-word, and they know it!
thankfully, they are all growing into decent & compassionate kids who always stand up for
others, particularly anybody ‘different’ in any way. my middle-schooler has even made it ‘cool’
to stand up for those who can’t or won’t for themselves.
turns out there was an excellent alternate reason that I raised them this way…
our middle child, Zack, was Finally diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome a year ago,
and his six sibs are well-equipped to stand up for him & next to him with their heads
held high and their hands in his!
Keep Up the Great Work!
~zacksmom
Sabrina said
Thank you so much for this website. I have a son with a form of autism, a seizure disorder, and other developmental delays. He is hurt on a weekly basis by other kids throwing the “R” word at him and I’m just happy to know that I’m not the only one who is bothered by it. Education is the key!
Fran Decker said
I have a 25 year old son with Down Syndrome. I’m glad to finally see a national effort to encourage greater sensitivity in our language. We all have blind spots and areas where we are just clueless. But with some gentle reminders and the concerted effort of a campaign like this, we can make real progress. Thank you
Cody said
Does this mean i can’t say retardondo in band class anymore?
stopsayingretard said
ritardando
Pronunciation [ree-tahr-dahn-doh;] –adjective, adverb Music.
becoming gradually slower.
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Cody, its spelled “ritardondo” and if you feel it is to close to the ‘r’ word you are welcome to say ’slow it down’ in band class.
scott d.k. said
disable and (i.q. 70) border line of retardation, have to say is people of all my life riddcule a condition i was born with! though been a struggle to compete in normal scoaity,was look as being retarded not capable of learning though my mom, was a adovate for people like me, told me learned things at differnt pace from normal person, but scoaity had a notion should be put in a corner and do dishes, that your not capable of learning anything else!!!!!!!!!!! so i decided to speak my mind and yes gotten into trouble for what i believe in but turn it, had wrong attiude for the job! perhaps on dating scene feel not incapable of having a marriage and family,women felt would give birth to down sydrome children, and distance themselves from me, in today,s don,t fit in because not computer literite,text messages, not in today,s scene so behind the times, lost serval friends because chosen a short-cut in life, but i try to put my faith into everything i did do but my father wanted me work on computer,s but i had a differnt dream,work with people,been working with infants to eldery and no regrets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! though hoping to be independent and live in scoaity don,t judge people who are disable and differnt from normal, who stills shuts you out from getting a job, mention can provide a trained me, you guess right he never ever did hired or called back on progess! my mom, told if you want something enough,you have to scarifice,so i sold my bbcards get into this school, but i have to take tests to get into this progam, and hoping to find grant progam for finanicals and finding full- time job, fulfilled a realationship that wouldn,t be judged on being disable, saddley normal scoaity don,t apperiate the small details in life always overlooking the whole picture that moment could be right in front of her(?) but she listens to other people not inner-self that,s he,s the one!!!! perhaps did learned need to have LOVE+FAITH+HOPE+PATINENCE+UNDERSTANDING,we ALL have it we just misused our oppurintys in life and never,ever share it with people so still learning how to FORGIVE THE ARROGANCE OF PEOPLE!so may ALL the people i wronged FORGIVE ME,not seeing inner soul of person!!!! thank you scott k.
don'tusetheword said
i think that we should stop using this term towards other people mainly because it’s rude.
molly said
those kids should not have to feel that way everyday people are just so mean
Ashley Young said
I really want to thank you for this website because I’m a mentally challenged person.